Subject: Re: Permissions icons not showing up properly
From: Marc Miller (itlm019@mailbox.ucdavis.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 29 2000 - 03:14:47 EST
I saw that too & I'm not quite sure what to make of it. Unfortunately,
the office is closed until after New Years & I can't get in there to test
fixes for another week or so.
Has anyone else seen this problem?
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Kevin M. Myer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using netatalk 1.5pre3 on Red Hat Linux 6.2 on x86
> hardware. I have a Departments folder setup with 7 department folders
> underneath the main folder. Each sub-folder is setup so that only members
> of that department can access it, which is done via groups. The top-level
> folder is read-only so that no one can delete the entire department folder
> accidently. Now normally when a user logs in, they open the Department
> folder. Then what they normally see is a window with a pencil with a line
> through it (the read-only icon in the upper left hand corner of the
> window). And all the department folder icons have the belt buckle around
> them, except for the department they are a member of. That was normal, as
> of yesterday.
>
> Yesterday morning, I began moving files from three other servers to this
> new server. I attempted to change ownership of the folders from myself to
> the proper owner - that didn't work obviously because I was just a normal
> user. So I added the -admingroup option to the afpd.conf file and
> restarted netatalk. After doing this, I found that I now had full access
> to move folders around but I still was getting EPERM denied errors when
> trying to change owners on folders. I tried copying permissions to all
> enclosed folders which failed as well.
>
> Well, after I did this, I removed the -admingroup option from afpd.conf
> and restarted netatalk again. Unfortunately, the windows and folders no
> longer indicate read-only access or no access. Instead, the windows are
> normal and the folders are normal (i.e. no slashed pencil or belt-buckle).
> And instead of getting an access denied error when trying to click on a
> folder I don't have permission to, I now get a "The folder XXX cannot be
> opened because it cannot be found". strace shows the following:
>
> chdir("test/.") = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>
> I'm sure that I've just managed to get a bit set somewhere wrong, perhaps
> with my attempt to copy permissions to enclosed folders. I'd really like
> to get back to having the buckled icons and the read-only windows, as well
> as error messages which accurately reflect whats really going on.
>
> I'd appreciate any feedback relating to the permissions display, as well
> as any information regarding the -admingroup option (i.e. why it isn't
> giving me administrator rights on the server).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>
> --
> Kevin M. Myer
> Systems Administrator
> Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13
> (717)-560-6140
>
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