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Permissions on /mit?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Neltner)
Tue Jan 20 15:12:33 2009
From: Brian Neltner <neltnerb@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:11:22 -0500
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Dear Tim et al,
I'm installing a server for my lab that I'd like to have set up so that
people can use it to access their athena lockers and run athena software
there (for instance gaussian) with X forwarding, as well as to access
their personal athena directories.
I've been able to do this successfully at home, but when I do this on
the lab server, it gives me this:
neltnerb@belcher10:/$ renew
Password for neltnerb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU:
neltnerb@belcher10:/$ add matlab
Cannot attach locker on /mit:
directory /mit is group/other writable.
I changed the permissions with chmod go-w /mit to remove the writable
permissions and when I try again, it gives me this:
neltnerb@belcher10:~$ add matlab
matlab: Could not attach locker:
Permission denied while symlinking /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/matlab
to /mit/matlab
The folder /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/matlab exists and is readable by
my normal user account.
The permissions right now on /mit look like this (after my
modifications):
drwxr-xr-x 2 root pyhesiodfs 4096 2009-01-20 14:11 mit
My user account is not a member of pyhesiodfs, and I didn't try adding
myself to that group because I don't know what it is.
What are the permissions on /mit supposed to be?
Thanks,
Brian Neltner
