[OpenAFS] ACLs not working on afs volumes! Help!

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:30:43 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, matt cocker wrote:

> So why is it done like this? Doesn't make a lot of sense in a multiple 
> platform environment (where a lot of users use windows) to have things 
> outside the afs security tools determining permissions?

It was done like that before Windows existed. No reason to screw the 
people using it. The directory owner went away, and only the root 
directory of the volume owner is used now, (which iirc matches what the 
manual claims) and really it exists so a user can't inadvertantly lock 
themselves out.