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aklog

As mentioned before, you do not need to explicitly attach a volume to access its files. However, if the volume is in another cell, the cell may not ``recognize'' you and grant you proper permissions. You can use the command aklog to identify, or authenticate, yourself to an MIT-based cell. Basically, aklog uses your Kerberos tickets to get you tokens for the cell. To use aklog, you can type aklog -c cellname, or you can cd to a volume in the cell and type aklog . (``.'' is an abbreviation for the current directory). For more information, you can read the manual page for aklog. Note that if you attach or add a volume, the command aklog will be called as a part of the attach process.