[OpenAFS] problem creating volumes

[Knape, Dean]

Thank you. 

I am running a script that must create volumes and I do not want to embed
admin credentials.
dean
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Garman [mailto:jgarman@wedgie.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:14 PM
To: Knape, Dean
Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] problem creating volumes


On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:58:24PM -0500, Knape, Dean wrote:
> I tried that and it didn't seem to help.  Must the user be member of the
> system:administrators group?  I would like to allow a standard user to
> create volumes.
> 
You might have to re-acquire a token after you add the user to the
system:administrators group, but if that doesn't help, then I'm not sure
whats going on off hand.

You *definately* don't want to but "normal" users in the UserList file!
Users in that file will be able to run arbitrary commands on the file
servers as root.

I don't believe that there is a finer-grained mechanism to allow normal
users to create volumes... what exactly are you trying to create in your
setup?  Perhaps theres some other way to accomplish what you're seeking?

Enjoy
-- 
Jason Garman / jgarman@wedgie.org