Subject: Re: Serious Problems
From: Luke McNeilage (lmn@d2p.com.au)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 21:04:33 EDT
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Luke McNeilage
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>> You SUDO-UNIX people really shouldn't make grand statements about Mac
>> Pre-press applications. Everything you have identified above is user
>> privileges.
>
> Perhaps you're right, but it was not described as such. Besides,
> and to my surprise, I have seen many applications behave
> differently in respect to AFP. Why do you say SUDO-UNIX? It
> sounds odd.
>
>> Try doing a chmod -R 777 on the entire shared volume and see if you still
>> have the same problems. If they have gone away (as they did when I first
>> started with Netatalk) them you can start a user & group plan of the server.
>
> Doing this may be dangerous. That depends on the content of
> course. Another obvious thing is that one may loose other
> permission bits (like sticky for directories).
>
>> When you make users, DO NOT make individual groups. That totally screws up a
>> Mac workflow, because whoever touches a file is the only person how can
>> touch it after that.
>
> This is to general a statement. There are different security
> needs.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dejan
>
I call you sudo because you are neither UNIX nor MAC. The moment you raise
issues about security and all that UNIX paranoia, you should get out of
pre-press. Work-Flow depends on just that, open flow of ideas.
Did you try what I said first. Then look at you security. Its a work-flow
issue, first, security second.
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