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All user that are issued an MIT Athena Kerberos principal are also provisioned with an MIT email account and an AFS directory. When using the Athena computing environment the AFS home directory also serves as the user's home directory. AFS also serves as a backing store for WEB.MIT.EDU. This means that users have a very convenient way of publishing static web pages, if they have access to an AFS client.
However, there are some problems with AFS. Since AFS commands a relatively small market share an AFS client is not a standard part of any operating system distribution. New operating system releases sometimes arrive with no client support. These cause an obsticle to easy access to AFS for some users. Many MIT users spend at least part of their time working on machines that do not have an AFS client installed. This makes AFS less useful for easily publishing static HTML pages or general purpose file sharing among collaborators.
AFS has also ended up as a critical path item on some projects. For example, some project deployments have been delayed until AFS issues for a particular platform have been resolved. MIT's IS&T has occasionally
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