On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:33:01 -0800 Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> You can use different local UIDs and AFS PTS IDs and everything will > continue to work properly. AFS doesn't actually care what your local UID > is; it will use whatever your PTS ID is for such things as file > ownership. However, some local software (particularly on Mac OS X) can > get confused. it mostly works. there are a couple programs out there still that insist that the uid on the file be the same as yours -- otherwise they assume you dont have write permissions. as i recall (and it is a bit hazy) utime()/utimes() is one of those syscalls that really doesnt like uid != file uid. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
