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Johan Danielsson joda at pdc.kth.se
Mon Jun 28 10:01:36 CEST 1999


Chris Wing <wingc at 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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