Subject: [netatalk-admins] Does Netatalk follow symlinks?
From: Jorge Gonzalez (jorgegv@iit.upco.es)
Date: Tue Jul 22 1997 - 07:52:20 EDT
Hi everyone,
I've just subscribed to the list, and I have grep'ped through the list
archive, but I didn't find anything about my problem. The situation is the
following:
I have two users, A and B, who wish to share a directory inside one of their
homes. A gives rw permission to the group A and B belong to, so B can access
the directory, although it's inside A's home directory. All fine. Then B
decides that he wants to be comfortable, so he symlinks the shared directory
from A's home to his. All fine again. In UNIX, B can access A's shared
directory without a glitch, just cd'ing to it, following the symlink.
But wait, B is the proud owner of a Mac, so he wished he could access files
in the shared directory with Netatalk. Netatalk then decides that... he has
not enough rights to do it, even though he does, in fact.
Does anyone know if Netatalk has any problems following symlinks, or can it
be configured through some option I didn't see in the manpage??
Thank you, and sorry for the prose, I got inspired today...
;-DDDDD
-- Jorge González Villalonga <Jorge.Gonzalez@iit.upco.es> Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica - UPCo --- Madrid (SPAIN) http://www.iit.upco.es/~jorgegv/ Phone: +34 15 41 96 41 --- Fax: +34 15 42 31 76
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