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Re: /svn/athena r25002 - trunk/debathena/config/cluster-login-config/debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sat Mar 5 17:40:28 2011
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 17:40:21 -0500
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To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
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>> If HOME is not in AFS, you don't get to log into the cluster machine. Setting HOME to something else is unsupported.
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> Sure. We should be robust in handling such cases when possible, though (which was the whole motivation for thinking enough to send the first mail).
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>> This check is here for the following case: your homedir is in a foreign cell, and you have tokens for that cell, but you let your Athena tokens expire because oyu don't need them. In that case, we still want to do a graceful logout.
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> Right, that was clear. But somehow the "$afspath does not start with /afs" case feels like an error case which may or may not merit treatment other than defaulting to assuming that athena cell tokens are necessary.
I don't understand what case is missing. What could HOME be set to that doesn't begin with /afs or /mit? And what should we do in that situation?
-Jon
