Re: [OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and ownership of files

2005-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, March 23, 2005 08:26:54 AM -0500 "Todd M. Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Q. Where is this enforced? Specifically, what's different about implicit 'a' rights if somebody is running a 1.2 server with a 1.3 client? How about a 1.3 server and a 1.2 client? Mixed servers? Other re

Re: [OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and ownership of files

2005-03-23 Thread Todd M. Lewis
Derrick J Brashear wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Bob Cook wrote: On Monday, March 21, 2005, Todd Lewis wrote: Not quite. The owner of a directory has implied administrator rights in that directory. [...] although Todd is right about the behavior, Derrick Brashear acknowledged at last year's Best Pra

Re: [OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and ownership of files

2005-03-22 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Bob Cook wrote: On Monday, March 21, 2005, Todd Lewis wrote: Not quite. The owner of a directory has implied administrator rights in that directory. On Tuesday March 22, 2005, Kim Kimball wrote: You're right of course about the directory ownership. Although it's getting a bit f

Re: [OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and ownership of files

2005-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
On Monday, March 21, 2005, Todd Lewis wrote: >> Not quite. The owner of a directory has implied administrator >> rights in that directory. On Tuesday March 22, 2005, Kim Kimball wrote: >You're right of course about the directory ownership. Although it's getting a bit far afield from the origina

RE: [OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and ownership of files

2005-03-22 Thread Dexter 'Kim' Kimball
rle' > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories > and ownership of files > > > > > Dexter 'Kim' Kimball wrote: > > > > In general AFS doesn't care about ownership/mode bits -- > ignores them > > entirely on directo

Re: [OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and ownership of files

2005-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Friday, March 18, 2005 08:57:41 PM -0500 "Thomas M. Payerle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this behavior "expected"? Am I missing something? Is there a way in AFS to have a file be append-only (possibly with creation if missing, but without being "readable") that does not depend on the pri

Re: [OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and ownership of files

2005-03-21 Thread Todd M. Lewis
Dexter 'Kim' Kimball wrote: In general AFS doesn't care about ownership/mode bits -- ignores them entirely on directories, Not quite. The owner of a directory has implied administrator rights in that directory. That may be relevant here. Or not. Whatever. -- +--

RE: [OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and ownership of files

2005-03-21 Thread Dexter 'Kim' Kimball
:58 PM > To: openafs-info@openafs.org > Subject: [OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and > ownership of files > > > I have a cgi script on a web server writing into an AFS > directory with > ACL rights wilk; i.e. "write" permission set minus the &q

[OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and ownership of files

2005-03-18 Thread Thomas M. Payerle
I have a cgi script on a web server writing into an AFS directory with ACL rights wilk; i.e. "write" permission set minus the "r". The desired intent was to create a directory containing a file which the cgi script can append to, but would be unable to read from. The above appeared to be working