[17862] in Athena Bugs
linux 8.3.30: install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Mon May 22 16:59:58 2000
Message-Id: <200005222059.QAA24759@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:59:53 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
System name: alice-whacker.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 8.3.30
Display type:
Shell: /afs/sipb/project/bash/bash (/bin/athena/bash?)
Window manager: unknown
I was trying to /usr/bin/install a file from local disk to AFS with my
root instance. It said "operation not permitted". strace(1) revealed
that it was trying to chown a file to UID -1 and GID -1. Looking at
the source for GNU fileutils 4.0p, it appears that there is a define
called "AFS" that causes the problem to go away (which ignores EPERMs
on chown(2)s). I recompiled fileutils with:
CFLAGS=-DAFS ./configure && make
and the problem went away. It is worth noting that install(1)
does a chown on the file even if you don't specify "-o", and
chowning to -1:-1 with null-instance tickets does not appear
to fail. This problem is documented in the src/install.c file
of GNU fileutils.
yak
