[OpenAFS] Cron jobs without service keytab
Matthew Andrews
matt@slackers.net
Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:55:51 -0700
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>> If the pag is really being lost likely either cron does a setgroups
>> somewhere, and explicitly obliterates the pag group memberships(I've
>> seen
>> this before, but I can't remember what program did it)
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> This shouldn't be able to happen; the kernel module traps setgroups
> and insures that pag information is preserved. There's no problem
> unless you set a really large set of groups, and even then I think
> it's the groups that lose, and not the pag.
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Indeed I stand corrected. I wonder what I was remembering.
-Matt
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> -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
> Sr. Research Systems Programmer
> School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
> Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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