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Re: Permissions on /mit?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Tue Jan 20 15:49:34 2009
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:48:28 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Brian Neltner <neltnerb@mit.edu>
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Hi Brian -
It looks like the /mit automounter may not be running. Try running
`sudo /etc/init.d/debathena-pyhesiodfs restart`
- Evan
Brian Neltner wrote:
> 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
>
>
