Just wondering... is the Administrator guide's documentation of how AFS uses the mode bits complete and up-to-date?
http://www.openafs.org/pages/doc/AdminGuide/auagd020.htm#HDRWQ580 It doesn't seem to cover: 1. sticky bit - AFS stores this, but does it have any effect? 2. setuid/setgid bits - as of 1.4.4, these are ignored unless "fs setcell" otherwise 3. any additional meaning given to the unix owner/group of a file - For example, the PTS identity which is numerically equal to the owner userid of the root directory of a volume has implicit "a" rights on the volume. - others? Apparently, "chown" and "chgrp" will do the wrong thing if the numeric userids in /etc/passwd do not match those in pts. I'm trying to determine whether or not this really matters in a cell where all clients ignore setuid/setgid and the admins never chown the root directories of any of the volumes (the default owner seems to be uid=0). Are there any tools out there for automatically updating /etc/passwd using the output from "pts listentries" or equivalent? - a -- PGP/GPG: 5C9F F366 C9CF 2145 E770 B1B8 EFB1 462D A146 C380 _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
