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Subject : Re: LUG: Symbolic link for AFS directory

From : asarkar3@ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:43:02 -0500

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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/
>
>


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