Searching for Testers was Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS site not geared for beginners...

Rodney M Dyer rmdyer@uncc.edu
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:58:47 -0400


At 08:29 PM 9/5/2006, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
>If the user is not the owner of the volume, they will not be able to add 
>back permissions they have removed.  Has something changed such that your 
>users no longer own their own volumes?  Or are you reporting that the 
>implicit permission granted to volume owners is no longer present?

This appears to be a Windows only client problem.  I just did the test with 
one of my test user accounts...

N:\.uncc\usr\h\trng12>fs la
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
   system:administrators rlidwka
   trng12 rlidwka

N:\.uncc\usr\h\trng12>dir
  Volume in drive N is AFS
  Volume Serial Number is 0000-04D2

  Directory of N:\.uncc\usr\h\trng12

09/05/2006  11:31 AM    <DIR>          .
09/05/2006  11:31 AM    <DIR>          ..
03/19/2004  04:27 PM    <DIR>          BACKUP
                0 File(s)          4,116 bytes
                3 Dir(s)  1,099,511,626,752 bytes free

N:\.uncc\usr\h\trng12>fs setacl . trng12 none

N:\.uncc\usr\h\trng12>dir
  Volume in drive N is AFS
  Volume Serial Number is 0000-04D2

  Directory of N:\.uncc\usr\h\trng12

File Not Found

N:\.uncc\usr\h\trng12>fs la .
fs: You don't have the required access rights on '.'

N:\.uncc\usr\h\trng12>fs setacl . trng12 all
fs: You don't have the required access rights on '.'

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If I perform the same operations under Solaris I get...

% fs la .
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
   system:administrators rlidwka
   trng12 rlidwka
% ls -al
total 68
drwxrwxrwx   3 trng12   root        2048 Sep  5 11:31 .
drwx------   2 daemon   staff      10240 Aug 31 08:01 ..
-rw-------   1 trng12   general       75 Jun 23  2005 .TTauthority
-rw-------   1 trng12   general      153 May 21 21:13 .Xauthority
-rw-------   1 trng12   general     1340 Aug 11  2004 .cshrc
-rw-r--r--   1 trng12   general      803 Aug 11  2004 .cshrc.sol9
drwxr-xr-x   9 trng12   general     2048 Jun 23  2005 .dt
-rwxr-xr-x   1 trng12   general     5112 Jun 23  2005 .dtprofile
-rw-------   1 trng12   general     1345 Aug 11  2004 .login
-rw-r--r--   1 trng12   general      964 Aug 11  2004 .login.sol9
-rw-------   1 trng12   general     1371 Aug 11  2004 .logout
-rw-r--r--   1 trng12   general      390 Aug 11  2004 .logout.sol9
-rw-r--r--   1 trng12   general       77 May 21 21:13 .mailrc
-rwxrwxrwx   1 trng12   root          11 Sep  4 20:55 .xmotdrc
drwxrwxrwx   5 trng12   root        2048 Sep  1 10:40 BACKUP
% fs setacl . trng12 none
% fs la .
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
   system:administrators rlidwka
% ls -al
.: Permission denied
total 4
% fs setacl . trng12 all
% fs la .
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
   system:administrators rlidwka
   trng12 rlidwka
% ls -al
total 68
drwxrwxrwx   3 trng12   root        2048 Sep  5 11:31 .
drwx------   2 daemon   staff      10240 Aug 31 08:01 ..
-rw-------   1 trng12   general       75 Jun 23  2005 .TTauthority
-rw-------   1 trng12   general      153 May 21 21:13 .Xauthority
-rw-------   1 trng12   general     1340 Aug 11  2004 .cshrc
-rw-r--r--   1 trng12   general      803 Aug 11  2004 .cshrc.sol9
drwxr-xr-x   9 trng12   general     2048 Jun 23  2005 .dt
-rwxr-xr-x   1 trng12   general     5112 Jun 23  2005 .dtprofile
-rw-------   1 trng12   general     1345 Aug 11  2004 .login
-rw-r--r--   1 trng12   general      964 Aug 11  2004 .login.sol9
-rw-------   1 trng12   general     1371 Aug 11  2004 .logout
-rw-r--r--   1 trng12   general      390 Aug 11  2004 .logout.sol9
-rw-r--r--   1 trng12   general       77 May 21 21:13 .mailrc
-rwxrwxrwx   1 trng12   root          11 Sep  4 20:55 .xmotdrc
drwxrwxrwx   5 trng12   root        2048 Sep  1 10:40 BACKUP
%


Have at it guys.  :-)

Rodney