Subject: Re: volume administrator
From: Marc J. Miller (itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 13:09:48 EDT
Well, most of the credit should go to Sam Noble who wrote the patch for an
earlier asun 2.1.4 release. :) Netatalk 1.5 is being built at Sourceforge
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk). There's really a single
development stream. It started with umich, then asun worked on it, and now
it's a Sourceforge project.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Temple" <Matthew_Temple@dfci.harvard.edu>
To: "Marc J. Miller" <itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu>;
<netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: volume administrator
> 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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