Telnet into systems as root
adduser AppleGod with group AppleGrp
change directory to the root of the volume you want to have access to with
God like priveledges. Execute this:
chown -R AppleGod:AppleGrp .
Any file/directory that is only be to written by AppleGod do this to it:
chmod 755 file/directory
Any file/directory that is allowed to be written to by any user in the
AppleGrp group (ie: administrators) do this to it:
chmod 775 file/directory
Any file/directory that is allowed to be written to by guests or users who
are not members of teh AppleGrp group do this to it:
chmod 777 file/directory
Now connect to the volume via appletalk on a mac.
Logging in as AppleGod gives you the God-like priviledges.
Logging in as a user belonging to the AppleGrp group gives you God-like
priviledges to files/directories you chmod 775 to.
Logging in as anyone else only gives you read access to files unless you
allowed read and write access to a file/directory by chmod 777 to it.
If you do not want read and write access to a file/directory place a 0 in
the appropriate position.
ie: chmod 770 file/directory
gives file/directory read and write access for AppleGod and
AppleGrp members, but everyone else cannot read or write the
file/directory.
For more information on setting permissions on file directories, pull up
the system manuals on `chmod` and `chown`.
What I have explained is only the tip of the iceberg!!
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Russell E Glaue, Technologies Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Center for the Application of Information Technologies
101 Horrabin Hall, 1 University Circle, Macomb, Illinois 61455
http://www.cait.org http://cait.wiu.edu
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> We are trying to setup netatalk where we had previously been using
> cap. In cap, it was possible to login as root and move files around as root
> and do pretty much all the god-like things that root gets to do.
>
> We're experimenting with netatalk and can't seem to get any similar
> functionality. It is critical that we have a way to move files around and
> do administration (not necessarily mess with server settings, just file stuff
> is all we need) through a macintosh interface. My first thought was to
> just comment out the code that disables root logins. Tried it and didn't
> get results.
>
> I'd be interested in any solutions to this problem that might have
> been devised, or thoughts on how something could be setup or modified to
> make it work. Note -- I'm not afraid to much around with source code.
>
> It's possible that Bethany Hanson has written to this list recently
> asking about something similar. We work for the same people and she
> currently has no access to this list.
>
> /* Sam */
>
