Subject: Re: Permissions and Groups problem
From: Greg Lincoln (glincoln@southweststrategies.com)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 10:50:54 EDT
on 8/1/00 12:09 PM, Tom Fitzgerald at tfitz@MIT.EDU wrote:
> The permissions handling isn't the same as the authentication handling,
> so you may be looking in the wrong place.... The afpd will run with the
> group membership it finds in /etc/group at the time it (afpd) starts up.
> The group list from /etc/group is matched against the single group
> that the file or directory is in, to see if the user should have
> permission to access it.
>
Seems I have a theory. Could it be that for whatever compiling reason that
netatalk ONLY recognizes the groups that were present during compiling? I've
been spending a good portion of this afternoon troubleshooting,
painstakingly trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've finally
figured out that if I create a group now and assign it to a user, that user
cannot access the privileges of that group. However, if I do everthing
exactly the same but assign a user to a group that has existed even before
the netatalk installation/compile, it works perfectly. Furthermore, it seems
as if it works from the name of the group as well, not the number, so if the
name of the group is changed, the permissions are no longer valid.
Any ideas? Am I on the right track to figuring out my permissions headache?
Where should I turn? Again, running ...asun2.1.3-7 and RH Linux 6.2.
Thanks.
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Greg Lincoln, Creative Director
Southwest Strategies, LLC
glincoln@southweststrategies.com
858.597.7555
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