[OpenAFS] uid 0 im AFS

[Derek Atkins]

Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> writes:

> This doesn't create files. This changes the uid of a file. What I want
> is, that files created by a third party program, created with uid 0. I
> don't want to crawl behind all programs and correct their files.
> 
> So, I seams, there is no solution for this problem. Or has anyone one?

No, a third-party program cannot "create" files with uid 0.  It can,
however, 'chown' a file to uid zero if you have system:administrator bits.
For example, "cp -p" will create a uid-0 file, as will a 'tar -x'.

I do wonder why this is an issue for you, unless you are doing
something strange (and unsupported) like running your root filesystem
out of AFS.

> Joerg.

-derek

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