[OpenAFS-devel] Cannot overwrite a file

[Adam Parrish]

I am having a very similar problem when trying to just rename a file in
my afs space. The user is authenticated with Kerberos tokens and their
home directory is mounted on login. I then run a test to see if I can
rename a file with mv /afs/cellname/user/w/waparris/file
/afs/cellname/user/w/waparris/file2 and it gives me error cannot stat
'file' : Permission denied. 

Any ideas?

Much appreciated.
Adam Parrish

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Adam Parrish
Asst. Linux Administrator
ECE Dept, North Carolina State University
Office: 919.515.0124

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:56, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Kostas Liakakis wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-2] Martin MOKREJ? wrote:
> >
> > > > chmod +w /afs/.cellname/afsws/afs-alpha-mips/usr/local2/bin/tcsh
> > >
> > > Is that necessary? Th euser has AFS privileges for write already, so why
> > > does the C code get permission denied from kernel? Doesn't the AFS part of
> > > kernel handle this?
> >
> > Yes. It is, in fact, handling them :-)
> >
> > Check the user guide. The mode bits are ignored within AFS with the
> > excepetion of the "user" part. If one of the user r,w or x bits is off,
> > then _nobody_ , not even the owner, can read, write or execute the
> > file/directory regardless of the AFS acl.
> 
> OK, then I have to install a cronjob to do it for everyone. Thanks! ;)