[HCoop-Discuss] afs weirdness

David Crawshaw crawshaw at hcoop.net
Mon Mar 3 16:10:38 EST 2008


docelic at hcoop.net wrote:
> This is a known behavior in Unix when you are moving files between
> systems that do not have (compatible) permission models, or when you
> don't have the permission to chown the files.

Ah, thanks. I figured as AFS ignored unix permissions the /afs
directory would make chown a free-for-all, but that doesn't make sense
on a multi-user system.

Nathan Kennedy <ntk at hcoop.net> wrote:
> You did not say what operating system "mac" is running.  Details, details,
>  please.  Kernel, distribution, etc.

Doubt it matters now but OS X 10.5.2 with OpenAFS 1.4.6.

d.



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