[OpenAFS] Token Persistency and GUI Problems on Mac OS X

[Russ Allbery]

Wei-Gung Sun <Wei-Gung.Sun@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

> Via the GUI window, my client side was recognized as Owner by file
> protection mode of each directory (or folder) in AFS.  AFS acl did
> perform some capability to prevent system from being locked up when
> granting access to file/directory(folder), but if file protection mode
> for Owner of a directory has Read permission only, even you got token,
> you still do not have sufficient access privileges to get access to that
> directory (folder) unless the file protection mode for Owner of that
> directory has at least Read and Execute permission (i.e. r-x for Owner).

Yes, that's correct.  If you don't have execute permission, you can't open
the folder.

This isn't a bug.  :)

In Unix execute (--x) for directories indicates whether you're allowed to
traverse the directory or see what files are in it.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>