> We have found that it is easiest for us to have some volumes owned by
> a group (so that he entire group has the ability to recover from
> various acl-setting mistakes, like removing everyone) rather than a
> single person. Our current setup accomplishes this by chown-ing the
> mountpoints of those volumes to the gid of the relevant group. Much
> of our environment is managed by a single server, and it does the
> chown automatically when it does the vos create. However, in afs
> gid's are negative, in order to distinguish them from uid's. While it
> is possible to do the chown on the decstation we have now, we are
> planning to upgrade this machine to a Sun running Solaris. Under
> Solaris (and just about every other platform we've checked) it isn't
> possible to give chown a negative argument. Does anyone know of
> another way to get a group to have the implicit rights to correct ACL
> mistakes in a volume, or some other solution to our problem?
Interesting... I wasn't aware that you could do that at all.
Anyway, it should be fairly simple to come up with a utility that
does a direct RPC to the fileserver to change a volume's owner.
In fact, we may have something close to that lying around; let me look
around and post something further in a day or two...
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems Programmer, CMU SCS Research Facility
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