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

[Daniel Margolis]

That would be nice for resolving the Kerberos thing as well (providing users
the option to use ssh keys). And I won't claim to love using FS ACLs over
POSIX permission bits, either (not that they're non-functional--although
file-level permissions are often nice--so much as I like being able to stick
with what I know).

Any idea what the timeline on this would be? Because of the above issues,
I've been planning to abandon hcoop as soon as I get around to finding
someplace new. But if this is really going to happen, I'd probably stick it
out and see how that goes.

Dan

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
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