[OpenAFS] Setting the setacl on newly created volumes

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 01:40:50 -0400 (EDT)


I swore I was going to bed, and I am, really, but...

> The owner of a directory appears as its UNIX owner, and has implicit 'a'
> rights on the directory.  The owner of a volume is the same as the owner
> of its top-level directory, and has implicit 'a' rights on every directory
> in the volume. 

Note that you can set a negative owner in which case the pts group
corresponding to that negative number will own the volume. Your OS may not
let you do that unless you cheat, but nonetheless it is true.

-D