How do I access other AFS cells?
Last updated: December 5th, 2023 03:24 PM
If you are currently authenticated with your Pitt account, you can gain full access rights to your Pitt IT AFS files just by issuing the "aklog" command.
aklog -cell pitt.edu
You may also authenticate to another AFS cell outside of Pitt by obtaining a Kerberos 5 token for that realm and then getting an AFS token from that. Example:
kinit USERNAME@SOME.OTHER.EDU Password for USERNAME@SOME.OTHER.EDU: aklog -cell some.other.edu
NOTES. The AFS command "tokens", will tell you what cells you are currently authenticated for. The AFS command "unlog -cell pitt.edu" will discard the token for access to the specified cell; be careful... not specifying a cell will discard all tokens including access rights to your home directories. If this happens just aklog again with no parameters; your current login cell is used by default.