[OpenAFS-devel] thoughts on file ownership in afs

[Neulinger, Nathan]

Primary issue is less-capable users on NT stations that are editing
scripts/etc. used from unix that are ownership dependent, as well as
enabling execution of those scripts.

Secondary issue is simple convenience from the perspective of "oops, i
created that file authenticated as the wrong person, now i have to
rename/copy/delete it as the right owner to fix it", whereas chowning it
would be alot easier.

The problem basically stems from - the combination of ownership dependencies
on unix facilities plus acls for file maintenance access doesn't really work
due to the way ownership changes happen.

Me personally, I could care less, it's not like it's all that hard to log
into a unix box and correctly create the files/etc. 

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Hartman [mailto:hartmans@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:03 PM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> Cc: 'openafs-devel@openafs.org'
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] thoughts on file ownership in afs
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Neulinger," == Neulinger, Nathan <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>     Neulinger,> I think some combination of the above would make
>     Neulinger,> certain file management issues alot easier when in a
>     Neulinger,> mixed unix/nt environment, particularly when
>     Neulinger,> ownership/permission bits actually matter.
> 
> I think evaluating your proposal would be much easier if you actually
>  explained what these issues were and what you were trying to
>  solve/your eventual goals.
>