[OpenAFS] Strange group behaviour.

[Frank Burkhardt]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:01:52AM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just encountered a non-working behavior of group membership, and I cannot see what I'm 
> doing wrong.
> 
> Environment: Redhat, OpenAFS 1.4.5 on both server and client.
> 
> I have an user:
> 
> % pts examine afs-backup
> Name: afs-backup, id: 99942, owner: system:administrators, creator: afs-fiddler,  membership: 
> 3, flags: S----, group quota: 20.
> % pts membership afs-backup
> Groups afs-backup (id: 99942) is a member of:
>  system:backup
>  system:ptsviewers
> 
> But, this user cannot access directories where system:backup has rl as permissions, which it 
> should.
> Adding afs-backup directly with rl to the directory works fine.  I really don't understand why 
> this does
> not work, other users membership in other groups works just fine.
> 
> Any hints?  I think this is a really trivial problem, but I cannot understand what's wrong :-)

Did you get a new token for afs-backup after adding it to system:backup?

Regards,

Frank