Re: AFS client file ownership and mode bits recommendations

[Lyle Seaman]

Pat Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>         -rwxr-xr-x  2 root       131072 Feb 23  1993 /usr/vice/etc/afsd
> 
> Why does afsd need to be executable by all?

As you well know, it doesn't.
No harm done, though, as 
1. the system calls it uses mostly require the caller to be root.
2. it will fail to scan /usr/vice/cache if not run by root (and the
directory's mode bits are set correctly)