[936] in athena10
Re: Permissions on /mit?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Neltner)
Fri Jan 23 11:07:15 2009
From: Brian Neltner <neltnerb@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <49798267.6010702@mit.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:00:40 -0500
Message-Id: <1232726440.11227.0.camel@zeeman>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This command returns nothing.
It does have AFS on /afs type afs (rw) listed.
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 03:40 -0500, Evan Broder wrote:
> When configured correctly, /mit is a FUSE filesystem, and all
> attributes, including the owner and permissions of /mit itself, should
> be controlled by the FUSE filesystem. The fact that yours is 770
> root:pyhesiodfs instead of 755 root:root suggests that the /mit
> automounter isn't running.
>
> What do you get if you run `mount | grep pyhesiodfs`?
>
> - Evan
>
> Brian Neltner wrote:
> > 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
