[OpenAFS] Re: directories in afs have "owners"?
Christopher D. Clausen
cclausen@acm.org
Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:44:14 -0600
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Adam Megacz <megacz@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
>
>> Hrm, your reply was a bit cryptic... are you saying that AFS files
>> have a secret "owner" attribute which I can neither examine nor
>> modify?
>
> You can examine it and modify it. The entity with a PTS UID equal to
> the UID owner of a directory (or top of volume -- I don't recall if
> that change has been applied to OpenAFS) has implicit "a" access and
> can change the ACLs. Change the UID that owns a directory with
> chown, just like anywhere else. You have to be in
> system:administrators to chown a file or directory in AFS.
How do I change (or even view) the owner on a directory from Windows?
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Christopher D. Clausen
ACM@UIUC SysAdmin