[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Unix permission bits

[Chuck Boeheim]

Greetings,
We've just started looking at supporting macosx, and running afs on it.
Running openafs 1.2.10 on macosx 10.3, I observe that the unix permission
bits look quite different than they do on other platforms.  I found some of
the references to the 'permission patch', so it seems that this is 
deliberate, but
I hadn't yet found a discussion about why this was a desireable thing to do.

We have some system maintenance appliations that copy config files, 
applications,
etc from AFS space to the local disk.  They depend on replicating the 
permission
bits from AFS to the local copy, which of course breaks with this 
behavior. 
We end up with applications and config files being world writable this way.
We trust our users, but not that much!  Is there a way to configure this 
behavior
or otherwise get at the true bits stored in AFS?

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Chuck Boeheim    Stanford Linear Accelerator Center     650-926-4640
SLAC Computing Services Assistant Director Boeheim@SLAC.Stanford.Edu
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