adding afs users without new volumes, mountpoints

[Neulinger, Nathan]

Just issue the kas create, and pts createuser commands by hand. AFS has no
knowledge of any "default mount point" - the only thing that determines that
is the unix passwd file.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel_Tompkins@bc.com [mailto:Joel_Tompkins@bc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 4:05 PM
> To: info-afs@transarc.com
> Subject: adding afs users without new volumes, mountpoints
> 
> 
> Please excuse a real "newbie" question, but I want to setup 
> users who are
> web developers, and I want their default mount-points to be 
> volumes already
> created on the system. However, the book says I have to have 
> a V line in my
> uss template, which wants to create a new volume and mount 
> point for every
> new user. Even the page about issuing individual commands 
> uses vos create
> and fs mkmount commands (besides being very uninformative as 
> to syntax,
> etc.). All I really want to do is point them to their 
> development area when
> they log in. Is there a way to do this, or will afs just 
> assign it to the
> user if it is already created without generating an error? 
> Also, is there an
> archive for the list so I don't rehash ground already 
> covered? Thanks!!!
> 
> Joel Tompkins
> Senior Information Systems Engineer
> Boise Cascade Corporation
> 208-384-6415
> joel_tompkins@bc.com
> 
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