Subject: [netatalk-admins] netatalk and group file permissions
From: Ken Weiss (ken.weiss@ucop.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 02 1999 - 14:27:51 EDT
I noticed something interesting... I have a directory on my server that I
shared out through the AppleVolumes.default file. This directory is owned
by root, group ownership is cdlstaff. Permissions for the directory are 775
- read/write for both owner and group, read-only for others. Authenticated
users coming in with a GID other than cdlstaff can still write files to
this directory thorough netatalk:
# ls -l /var/data
total 1
drwxrwxr-x 4 root cdlstaff 1024 Jul 2 09:40 public
# ls -l /var/data/public
total 75
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kweiss users 57314 Jun 5 13:22 deck
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kweiss users 16896 Jun 5 13:20 deck estimate
-rw-r--r-- 1 kweiss cdlstaff 0 Jul 2 09:28 foo
See? Even though the permissions on the directory shouldn't permit it (and
don't permit it from the Linux command line), Netatalk is creating files
there with group ownership of 'users.' How come?
I'm running netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 on a freshly minted RedHat 6.0 system
(Linux myhost.domain 2.2.5-15smp #1 SMP Mon Apr 19 22:43:28 EDT 1999 i686
unknown).
--Ken
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