[OpenAFS-port-darwin] Unix permission bits

[David Botsch]

Are these new permission things only there in either the Panther package or
only in 1.2.11 package?

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:26:27AM +0100, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> --On Montag, 2. Februar 2004 22:36 Uhr -0800 Chuck Boeheim 
> <boeheim@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> the GUI apps can't handle the AFS bits, so e.g. the Finder won't allow you 
> to open directories for which you have AFS permissions.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Check out /private/var/db/openafs/etc/config/settings.plist. You need to 
> run /private/var/db/openafs/etc/config/afssettings after you've made a 
> change.
> 
> Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn
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