[OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, a few questions for which I don't seem able to find docs :-) It seems like it is possible to recompile 1.4.6 with an option to get the possibility to put groups in groups. - Is this feature considered stable for production use? - Will it allow for multiple levels of groups in groups? - Is

Re: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Marcus Watts
Anders Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date:Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:26:26 BST To: openafs-info@openafs.org From:Anders Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc... Hi, a few questions for which I don't seem able to find docs :-) It

Re: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Great, exactly what I was wondering about! Many thanks for your quick answer! -- Ragge Marcus Watts wrote: Anders Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Date:Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:26:26 BST To: openafs-info@openafs.org From:Anders Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OpenAFS]

Re: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Marcus Watts wrote: Also, for people to be able to see what's in the protection database, they must obviously be members of the (undocumented?) ptsviewers group. Is it safe just to add all people to this group or are there other implications of doing so? Depends on if you ever want

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS namei file servers, SAN, any issues elsewhere? We've had some. Can AFS _cause_ SAN issues?

2008-03-18 Thread Kim Kimball
Would this have affected clone operations as well? It seems it would. Thanks. Kim Robert Banz wrote: AFS can't really cause san issues in that it's just another application using your filesystem. In some cases, it can be quite a heavy user of such, but since its only interacting

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS namei file servers, SAN, any issues elsewhere? We've had some. Can AFS _cause_ SAN issues?

2008-03-18 Thread Robert Banz
On Mar 18, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Kim Kimball wrote: Would this have affected clone operations as well? It seems it would. I'm pretty sure, yes. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Anders Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcus Watts wrote: Also, for people to be able to see what's in the protection database, they must obviously be members of the (undocumented?) ptsviewers group. Is it safe just to add all people to this group or are there other implications of doing

Re: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Anders Magnusson
Christopher D. Clausen skrev: % pts listentries -groups seems to require that the user belongs to system:administrators. I don't think you realize just how many groups there are in some cells. Enumerating all of them is not useful in many cases. Most users are probably fine just

Re: [OpenAFS] groups in groups, ptsviewers etc...

2008-03-18 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Anders Magnusson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am thinking on is letting people give access to groups that they are not member of. For example to let a teacher give and take rights for courses he gives; we have about 20k of (auto-generated) student groups so it's good to be able to list