Who are you authenticated as? The PTS id of the authenticated user (which is
not necessarily the same as the unix uid, although by convention it should
it) determines the ownership of files.
-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Riggs, Joan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 2:15 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: AFS permissions problems
>
>
> Files are getting written to directories that don't have the
> correct owner
> name. For instance, someone else has become the owner of many
> files that he
> did not create. Owner names are not getting assigned
> properly. Is there a
> history of permissions and ownership problems? Here is the
> text from our
> internal problem management system:
>
>
>
> I have seen problems with AFS lately, in that I can create a
> "new" file and
> save it, and do an ls and it is "NOT OWNED BY ME".
>
> s0418cdc:/afs/cdc.schwab.com/home/lkuronen/GNUstep/Library/Aft
> erStep/start/A
> pplications=>ls -ltr
> total 12
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lkuronen pxdc 8 Nov 17 11:08 1_nop
> drwxr-xr-x 2 lkuronen pxdc 2048 Nov 17 11:46 Accessories
> drwxr-xr-x 2 lkuronen pxdc 2048 Nov 17 11:49 Editors
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lkuronen pxdc 94 Dec 14 11:26 2_xterm
>
>
> s0418cdc:/afs/cdc.schwab.com/home/lkuronen/GNUstep/Library/Aft
> erStep/start/A
> pplications=>mkdir Lori
>
>
> s0418cdc:/afs/cdc.schwab.com/home/lkuronen/GNUstep/Library/Aft
> erStep/start/A
> pplications=>ls -ltr
> total 16
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lkuronen pxdc 8 Nov 17 11:08 1_nop
> drwxr-xr-x 2 lkuronen pxdc 2048 Nov 17 11:46 Accessories
> drwxr-xr-x 2 lkuronen pxdc 2048 Nov 17 11:49 Editors
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lkuronen pxdc 94 Dec 14 11:26 2_xterm
> drwxr-xr-x 2 hfassett pxdc 2048 Dec 22 15:39 Lori
>
>
> s0418cdc:/afs/cdc.schwab.com/home/lkuronen/GNUstep/Library/Aft
> erStep/start/A
> pplications=>id
>
>
> uid=22024(lkuronen) gid=300(pxdc)
>
>
>
> We have been seeing this frequently lately - where we do not
> own our own
> files in our AFS directories -
>
> and the new "owner" has not accessed or altered the files or
> permissions in
> any way.
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
>
> Joan Riggs
> *********************************
>
>
>
