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Re: User level permissions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johan Danielsson)
Mon Jun 28 04:09:25 1999

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To: Chris Wing <wingc@engin.umich.edu>
Cc: Assar Westerlund <assar@stacken.kth.se>, arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se
Subject: Re: User level permissions
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Date: 28 Jun 1999 10:01:23 +0200
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Chris Wing <wingc@engin.umich.edu> writes:

> Before, klist -tokens would list all tokens as being owned by AFS ID
> == your current UID. This was confusing to people who used klog to
> get tokens for other AFS accounts.

Is this really a problem worth solving?

> So, to do the right thing, we either need to put some of arlalib and
> pts into libkafs, so that k_afslog() gets the right AFSId by
> contacting the protection database

Please don't. You don't want to add all of rx/rxkad and other goo into
the still pretty small libkafs.

> or, we need to put it into a utility program like kauth.

Perhaps.

/Johan

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