Re: LUG: Symbolic link for AFS directory - Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:33:52 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Symbolic link for AFS directory

From : Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:33:52 -0400

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 03:43:02PM -0500, asarkar3@ncsu.[redacted] wrote:
> This also doesn't work. Even if I first mount the volume using ssh and
> then try to create the link, it doesn't work.
> May be OIT has some security restrictions. But it should be possible as
> told here:
> http://www.umbc.edu/oit/webdev/alias.html
>
>
> > ln -s
> > sftp://asarkar3:YOUR_PASSWORD@grendel.ece.ncsu.[redacted]/afs/unity.ncsu.edu/users/a/asarkar3/
> > AFShome
> >
> > Vulnerability: exposed password. Especially bad for multi-user systems.
> > --
> > Daniel Underwood
> > North Carolina State University
> > Graduate Student - Operations Research
> > email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> > phone: XXX.302.3291
> > web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
> >
> >
>

If you actaully tried the above then you have compromised your password.
I highly suggest you change it as soon as possible:

https://sysnews.ncsu.edu/passwd/

Jack
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Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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