[8432] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Can there be an AFS group with members of other cells in it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Fri Jan 26 13:35:58 2001
Message-Id: <200101261804.f0QI4m901548@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
To: Morris Strongson <mms@bnl.gov>
Cc: "info-afs@transarc.com" <info-afs@transarc.com>,
Maurice Askinazi <askinazi@bnl.gov>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:24:54 EST."
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:04:46 -0500
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
>We have users in another cell to whom we want to give access
>certain files in our cell. Is there a way to create a group
>in cell "abc", such as "xyzfolks" with such entries as
>"person1@xyz" (with proper syntax) so the specified
>people in the xyz cell can access specified files
>in the abc cell?
"yes". The format is username@other.cell.name. However .... the people
in the other cell won't be able to authenticate properly unless you set
up cross-realm authentication (and when I had looked at this originally,
it didn't seem like you could do that with the native Transarc tools).
--Ken
