[OpenAFS] -noauth not working

[Derek Atkins]

Lukas Kubin <kubin@opf.slu.cz> writes:

> Partly answering myself: I've already found a way to put the user back
> into system:administrators group by temporarily disabling authorization
> checking (command 'bos setauth serverhostname off').
> But still I don't know why the '-noauth' parameter doesn't work?

I think what you really want is "-localauth", not noauth...

> lukas

-derek

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Lukas Kubin wrote:
> 
> > By a mistake I removed my user with administrative rights from
> > system:administrators group in pts database. After finding that I wanted
> > to add it back on the database server locally using the -noauth parameter
> > to pts command. But it returned:
> >
> > pts: Permission denied
> >
> > Now the only user I have in system:administrators is user user/admin which
> > doesn't work. If I get credentials for that user, it doesn't help.
> > How should I solve this situation?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > lukas
> >
> > --
> > Lukas Kubin
> >
> > phone: +420596398285
> > email: kubin@opf.slu.cz
> >
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> > ------------ Output from gpg ------------
> > gpg: Signature made Mon Aug 11 13:50:03 2003 CEST using DSA key ID 266BC2EE
> > gpg: Good signature from "Lukas Kubin <lukas.kubin@permonik.com>"
> > gpg:                 aka "Lukas Kubin <kubin@opf.slu.cz>"
> > gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
> > gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
> > Primary key fingerprint: 5E66 C9C5 E804 3D09 8559  9A37 86E9 1D22 266B C2EE
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> Lukas Kubin
> 
> phone: +420596398285
> email: kubin@opf.slu.cz
> 
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> Czech Republic
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> 
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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