AFS Legacy Workflows¶

Warning

The usage of AFS is deprecated. AFS home directories were set to read-only in March 2026, project drives were set read-only in May 2026. The service was put out of order Friday 21 August 2026 for the general usage. Only LRT has an exception to further use AFS until December 2027 for certain type of projects.

This document covers the manual tasks needed for new users of LRT so that they are able to work in the LRT environment.

Creation AFS home¶

ssh lx-helpdesk
echo "linux-eng@psi.ch" > /afs/psi.ch/service/AFS/var/om/open/example_a
# replace example_a with username

Closing of the account/home¶

ssh lx-helpdesk 
touch /afs/psi.ch/service/AFS/var/om/close/example_a
# replace example_a with username

Ensure AD Attributes¶

In AD the correct setting of following two attributes are important:

msSFU30HomeDirectory
UnixHomeDirectory

Both attributes need to be set to /afs/psi.ch/user/e/example_a (replace username!)