[14837] in Athena Bugs
sgi [8.0I]: /os directory perms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Nov 21 23:19:08 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 04:19:01 GMT
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
System name: deliverator.MIT.EDU
Type and version: IP22 8.0I
Display type: GR3-XZ
What were you trying to do?
test mkserv remote on the SGI, but that's only tangentially
important right now.
What went wrong?
lots of random directories on /os, including etc ad usr/sbin
are owned by root and mode 700. this means that when mkserv
copies these dirs into /var/server, they are unreadable,
except by root, since the perms are copied.
What should have happened?
we should beat ourselves about the head with a soggy chmod
binary, until we remember that just because packs are in afs,
it doesn't mean nothing ever uses the UFS mode bits.
Yo, got any documentation, or other info?
I'm sure there are other scenarios where this would be a
problem.
