[OpenAFS] Strange group behaviour.

[Anders Magnusson]

Frank Burkhardt wrote:
> 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?
>   
Yep. 

-- Ragge