On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:50:32 +0100 "Karl Tißner" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Since it is not possible to create an user with AFS UID "0", all > > > files created by root are not owned by root (Debian Linux, root > > > has UID 0): > > > > > > # pts createuser -name testtest -id 0 > > > 0 isn't a valid user id; aborting > > > > > > What is the standard way to handle this problem? > > > > By declaring it not a problem, but desired behavior. Root is a > > local id, not a network id. A member of system:administrators can > > chown existing files to root, but that's as close as you're going > > to get I think. > > That's not really a satisfying solution. I'm forced to use the root > account, since I chroot into an AFS directory, which is the root > directory on a server using AFS mounted clients (for network boot). > Files created by root should be owned by root immediately. What problems are you encountering when files are not shown to be owned by root? -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
