AFS and changing local UIDs

[Neulinger, Nathan]

Display of file ownership in directory listings won't match... other
than that, doesn't really matter on unix platforms. (OS X may have some
other constraint, but not that I am aware of.)

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul at umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
UMR Information Technology             Fax: (573) 341-4216


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nepywoda at fnal.gov [mailto:nepywoda at fnal.gov] 
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:26 PM
> To: arla-drinkers at stacken.kth.se
> Subject: AFS and changing local UIDs
> 
> 
> I have Kerberos and Arla setup on OS 10.2 and I was wondering 
> if it's truly *necessary* 
> to change your local UID to your remote "afs" UID. I have 
> setup AFS/Arla on a few 
> machines and it's been working without changing the local UID 
> to match the remote 
> one. What exactly is the problem that makes it "suggested" to 
> change UIDs? Is it a 
> security issue or is it just an issue with the Finder's 
> interaction with AFS?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul Nepywoda
> 
>