[469] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
perform rw operations on directories without permission
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (david richardson)
Mon Nov 25 14:35:20 1991
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 13:45:17 -0500
From: david richardson <normanb@ifs.umich.edu>
To: info-afs@transarc.com
On IBM/RT and RS/6000 AFS 3.1 clients I can read and write
to a directory for which the UNIX mode bits have been turned
off. Is this a bug or a feature?
normanb:; pwd
/afs/umich.edu/user/n/o/normanb
normanb:; mkdir sample
normanb:; chmod 111 sample
normanb:; ls -ld ./sample
d--x--x--x 2 normanb 2048 Nov 25 13:35 ./sample
sample:; fs la ~/sample
Access list for /afs/umich.edu/user/n/o/normanb/sample is
Normal rights:
system:administrators rlidwka
system:anyuser rl
normanb rlidwka
normanb:; cd sample
sample:; pwd
/afs/umich.edu/user/n/o/normanb/sample
sample:; date >newfile
sample:; cat newfile
Mon Nov 25 13:36:40 EST 1991
sample:; ls -al
total 7
d--x--x--x 2 normanb 2048 Nov 25 13:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 normanb 4096 Nov 25 13:35 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 normanb 29 Nov 25 13:36 newfile
david richardson Institutional File System Project
normanb@citi.umich.edu The University of Michigan
