[Gllug] OT: Apple OS X Server File Permissions

[Ian Baillie]

A novice question, but how do I find the sticky bit? (I do recall this
from a book I read many moons ago, but I'm still a novice).


I done an 'ls -la', which shows the files are still owned by the
relevent user, and the group is staff, which is a default OSX group that
every user belongs to.


Ian


On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:04, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> Ian Baillie wrote:
> 
> >Not sure, but I assume it is using Appleshare, as the clients are on
> >OS9.
> >
> >  
> >
> 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
> >
> >On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:27, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Ian Baillie wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Is this using samba, nfs, ftp or webdav?
> >>
> >>Kind regards
> >>Xander
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Can anyone help?
> >>>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Ian
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
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