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Re: AFS Server Shutdown Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin R. Calsyn)
Thu Aug 22 16:49:53 1991

To: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 22 Aug 91 13:22:17 -0500.
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 91 15:28:34 CDT
From: Martin R. Calsyn <martin@iastate.edu>


> You could also give group read access to KeyFile to a clerk account [...]

Oh!  Strike that.  Since your clerk's shutdown script is suid to root,
then it'll be able to use -localauth without giving away any additional
access to KeyFile.

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