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Re: Permissions on /mit?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Neltner)
Tue Jan 20 15:54:00 2009
From: Brian Neltner <neltnerb@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4976389C.6020409@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:53:42 -0500
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Dear Evan,
When I do that, I get this message again:
neltnerb@belcher10:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/debathena-pyhesiodfs restart
* Restarting Debathena /mit automounter debathena-pyhesiodfs
[ OK ]
neltnerb@belcher10:~$ cd
neltnerb@belcher10:~$ renew
Password for neltnerb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU:
neltnerb@belcher10:~$ add matlab
Cannot attach locker on /mit:
directory /mit is group/other writable.
and permissions on the directory /mit are reset to:
drwxrwx--- 2 root pyhesiodfs 4096 2009-01-20 14:11 mit
Is there anywhere else that I might have permissions confused? Does my
user need to be a member of group pyhesiodfs? Is something supposed to
be run setuid somehow?
Thanks,
Brian
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 15:48 -0500, Evan Broder wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
