Subject: Re: volume administrator
From: Matthew Temple (Matthew_Temple@dfci.harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 10:53:35 EDT
The MAN!
That's an excellent fix. After making trivial hacks in netatalk
and cap over the last decade, I freel quite relieved. So as you can
see,
an extra week doesn't seem like very long to me. Will you post to this
group? Also, how do these fixes get incorporated into the two
netatalk streams: umich/asun? (Or is there really only a single
stream?)
At any rate, thank you very much. For those of us with large
installations, where you'd need to put the administrator into hundreds
of
groups (the limit is 32 or some binary number?) this represents an
important
realization that there are some VERY large netatalk installations out
there.
I'm going to be implementing this on several 800 gb servers from
Raidzone.
If anyone is interested in the way we implement a single volume
administrator using the RedHat private group scheme, please write back
to the
list and I'll repost. This is a few years old.
Matthew Temple
"Marc J. Miller" wrote:
>
> FYI, I'm putting the finishing touches on administrator group access in
> netatalk 1.5 right now. It will allow someone in a particular group (which
> you specify in afpd.conf) to have root priviledges. But I'd say we're still
> at least a week away from having a release candidate that includes a fully
> functional version of it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Temple, Matthew H." <Matthew_Temple@dfci.harvard.edu>
> To: <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:12 PM
> Subject: volume administrator
>
> > All,
> >
> > We have two issues that we constantly bump into with
> > Netatalk, largely around backup. Although we can backup
> > and restore our Netatalk volumes with Legato Networker or
> > dump, we'd like to be able to use Retrospect. But since
> > Netatalk, unlike Cap, doesn't have the notion of an
> > "afp adminstrator" there's no way to mount several volumes owned
> > by different labs (we're a research organization). I've figured
> > out how to use the "Redhat private group" scheme to create a
> > volume administrator, but this scheme won't work if there are
> > different administrators across the machine. And, of course,
> > this won't help to back up individual users who aren't part of a
> > volume.
> >
> > I do see how root can log in via a simple hack to afpd, but it
> > doesn't appear to have rootly privileges.
> >
> > What do people do for backing up their shared netatalk volumes?
> >
> > Matthew Temple
> >
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