[HCoop-Discuss] [HCoop-Announce] Reminder about AFS permissions

Daniel Margolis dan at hcoop.net
Tue Sep 9 16:06:11 EDT 2008


Of course. But making people rearrange their home directories to maintain
any privacy is kind of silly.

It's not the end of the world, but saying "AFS provides users with the most
choice" is wrong. My choice would be to have my home directory be private
(ideally, from authenticed users as well).

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:

> Daniel Margolis wrote:
> > But again, this doesn't prevent the home directory from being world
> > executable/"listable". Perhaps I'm "really paranoid," but for me, this
> > is an unacceptable arrangement.
>
> You can always create a subdirectory "private" where system:anyuser has
> no permissions and then pretend that "private" is your home directory.
>
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