[OpenAFS] Implied 'a' rights?

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:14:19 -0500


> But I do not recall reading that the owner of a volume has implicit
> 'a' rights on the volume, so I am wondering: Are there any other
> implicit 'a' rights out there?
> 
> In my ideal world, having 'a' rights on a directory would
> automatically imply 'a' rights to every directory within.  That would
> allow us to dish out administrative control from any point in AFS
> space all the way down.

It does, but for obvious reasons, it doesn't cross mount points. (It doesn't
actually grant the A right, but you can certainly grant it yourself.)

-- Nathan