[471] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Big problem with AFS on NeXT!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue Nov 26 01:38:20 1991
To: Torben Nielsen <torben@hawaii.edu>
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: [466] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 00:16:24 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@athena.mit.edu>
It sounds like you're running into a problem we experienced when using
afs homedirs on our NeXTs.
Some of the applications on the NeXT (Terminal and Stuart come to
mind, I'm not sure if Workspace is broken, too) which are setuid root
or run as root don't understand that root is not supreme in a network
environment. Specifically, they setreuid() to root, and then try to
lock files in the user's homedir. Fortunately, the lock times out.
If you had waited long enough, you would have been logged in, but
certain operations (such as saving the Terminal setup) would have hung
for a while.
The workaround here is to give system:anyuser k access to the ~/.NeXT
subdirectory of the homedir. That's sufficient to get things working.
Marc
