[OpenAFS] permission to run 'fs examine'

Michael Meffie mmeffie@sinenomine.net
Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:56:07 -0400


On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:48:49 +0100
Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wiesand@desy.de> wrote:

> In the stable release series for Unix it actually happened mid 2013, with the 1.6.4 release. The relevant passage in the release notes was:
> 
>     * Allow the fileserver to return volume data like quota or free space,
>       which is available publicly elsewhere, without the additional access
>       check for read permissions on a volume's root directory the fileserver
>       performed before.
> 
> We should probably adapt the fs_examine manpage. Any volunteers?

Proposed fs_examine man page change in http://gerrit.openafs.org/12223

Thanks,
Mike


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