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> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 93 16:44:03 +0100
> From: "Michael Niksch; +41-1-7248-913" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: setuid progs in AFS won't work on Sun clients?
>
> AFS doesn't have a notion of files that are executable, but
> not readable. If you want to execute a file in AFS, it must
> be readable for you, which means you must have 'l' and 'r'
> AFS permissions in the directory and the 'user r' bit on the
> file set to make the file readable, plus the 'user x' bit must
> be set to mark the file as executable. The other mode bits
> have no effect.
>
> In fact, since the concept of AFS is not to trust client
> machines at all, executable-only would not make sense as a
> means of copy protection, since the fileserver has no way
> of knowing what the client kernel is going to do with the
> file.
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I agree that this is expected behavior for AFS but AIX-bashing aside
can anyone say why x with no r should work on an AIX client, as the
original message claimed (or can anyone confirm that this is the case?
I don't have an AIX client handy to try this with..)
-mcnally.
