[OpenAFS] problem creating volumes

Knape, Dean Dean.M.Knape@NJIT.EDU
Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:58:24 -0500


I tried that and it didn't seem to help.  Must the user be member of the
system:administrators group?  I would like to allow a standard user to
create volumes.

thanks,
dean
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Garman [mailto:jgarman@wedgie.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:00 PM
To: Knape, Dean
Cc: 'openafs-info@openafs.org'
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] problem creating volumes


On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:42:17PM -0500, Knape, Dean wrote:
> When attempting to create a volume:
> 
> vos create <servername> /vicepa dummy.volume
> 
> I receive this error:
> 
> Could not get an Id for volume dummy.volume
> VLDB: no permission access for call
> Error in vos create command.
> VLDB: no permission access for call
> 
> The user attempting to create the volume is listed in the output of bos
> listusers <servername> and is properly authenticated.  This behavior is
> consistent for any user added to /usr/afs/etc/UserList.  klog to admin and
> the problem goes away.
> 
> Is there something I am missing?
> 
Add administrators to the system:administrators group.

pts adduser <username> system:administrators

enjoy,
-- 
Jason Garman / jgarman@wedgie.org