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

[Adam Chlipala]

Daniel Margolis wrote:
> 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).

The long-term plan that I've been advocating is to run a traditional 
UNIX machine, giving members the option to get accounts there.  For now, 
AFS is so critical to enabling scaling to multiple machines that it will 
be the only option for a while.