[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] pagsh and big uid with linux
Charles Clancy
security@xauth.net
Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:06:37 -0600 (CST)
> > > In all my years of using AFS I have NEVER seen these be 'real' groups.
> >
> > The groups are in the /etc/group file before i call
> > setpag().
> >
> > I can read and write files. Only I can't unlink files.
>
> This is normal behavior for AFS. It has always done this.
I can verify the same behavior on Solaris (using sh-utils id, or Solaris
'id -a'). The original post says "big uid" -- my UID is 100.
Is there a certain range of group ids that should be avoided? All the
pag groups look like they're close to 2^15.
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