[Gllug] OT: Apple OS X Server File Permissions

[Xander D Harkness]

Ian Baillie wrote:

>Not sure, but I assume it is using Appleshare, as the clients are on
>OS9.
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It could also be a sticky bit on the directories changing the ownership 
once they are saved.

can you have a look at the out put from ls -l to see whether you can see 
whether there is a sticky bit, whether the users' files are still owned 
by them and what permissions they have.

Cheers
Xander

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/22_06.html

Unix directory access permissions say that if a user has write 
permission on a directory, she can rename or remove files 
there–even files that don't belong to her. Many newer versions of 
Unix have a way to stop that. The owner of a directory can set its 
sticky bit. The only people who can rename or remove any file in that 
directory are the file's owner, the directory's owner, and the superuser.

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Here's an example: the user jerry makes a world-writable directory and 
sets the sticky bit (shown as t here):

jerry% mkdir share
jerry% chmod 1777 share
jerry% ls -ld share
drwxrwxrwt   2 jerry    ora           32 Nov 19 10:31 share

Other people create files in it. When jennifer tries to remove a file 
that belongs to ellie, she can't:

jennifer% ls -l
total 2
-rw-r--r--   1 ellie    ora          120 Nov 19 11:32 data.ellie
-rw-r--r--   1 jennifer ora         3421 Nov 19 15:34 data.jennifer
-rw-r--r--   1 peter    ora          728 Nov 20 12:29 data.peter
jennifer% rm data.ellie
data.ellie: 644 mode ? y
rm: data.ellie not removed.
Permission denied

>Ian
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>On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:27, Xander D Harkness wrote:
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>>Ian Baillie wrote:
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>>>Slightly off topic, but it is really about file permissions.  When a
>>>user currently logs on, they can access there home directories, and read
>>>there files, however, if they edit there files and try to save over the 
>>>old copy, they get an error suggesting the disk is either full or write
>>>protected.
>>>
>>>Checking the permissions on the server (/Users/usera/Documents)
>>>
>>>The Documents folder has its attributes set to 700, and all
>>>subfolders/Files are set to are set to 600.
>>> 
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>>Is this using samba, nfs, ftp or webdav?
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>>Kind regards
>>Xander
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>>>Can anyone help?
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>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>Ian
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>>>
>>> 
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