[1831] in Moira
Re: strange list behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Jul 25 16:57:38 2001
Message-Id: <200107252056.QAA04891@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jeff Bigler <jcb@alum.mit.edu>
cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU, bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:00:36 EDT."
<200107251100.HAA17517@multics.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:56:20 -0400
> Incidentally, the reason I have a list named jcb that's separate from
> user jcb in the first place is from the days of Athena NFS. At that
> time, each user was given an NFS group named the same thing as their
> username. When Moira was created and Athena made the transition to AFS,
> these NFS groups were also made AFS groups.
Yup, I remember the transition to afs (which occuired long after the
creation of moira) well.
> Am I correct in assuming that users are no longer automatically given an
> AFS group list with the same name as their username? Certainly, if I
Yeah, we stopped giving them out automatically about 5 years ago.
> asked Accounts for a list called jcb, regardless of my intended use of
> it, they'd probably (rightfully) reply "I don't think it's a good idea
> to have a list with the same name as your username."
I wouldn't be surprised if they gave it to you, but people hurting
themselves with this sort of list (generally getting the order of
arguments to blanche wrong) is one of the reasons we stopped giving
them out automatically.
> Could I be the only person who uses his/her same-name group/list in this
> manner? (Or at least the only person who has done so, found this
> particular bug, and reported it?)
The answers to those questions are almost certainly 'no' and 'yes'. :-)
Jonathon
