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What is an AFS protection group?

April 26, 2017AFS group

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What is an AFS protection group?

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A named list of users. Group names are used in AFS ACLs to identify lists of users with particular access permissions. In AFS, users can create and maintain their own protection groups. This is different to unix where only the system administrator can manage /etc/group. AFS groups are stored in the protection database on fileserver(s) and managed by using the “pts” command. An AFS group typically has the format: • owner-id:group-name By default, only the owner of a group can change its members. It is possible to have both users and IP addresses as members of an AFS group. By using an IP address like this you can specify all the users from the host with that IP address.

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A named list of users. Group names are used in AFS ACLs to identify lists of users with particular access permissions. In AFS, users can create and maintain their own protection groups. This is different to unix where only the system administrator can manage /etc/group. AFS groups are stored in the protection database on fileserver(s) and managed by using the “pts” command. An AFS group typically has the format: owner-id:group-name By default, only the owner of a group can change its members. It is possible to have both users and IP addresses as members of an AFS group. By using an IP address like this you can specify all the users from the host with that IP address.