Re: Permissions for creating files

Subject: Re: Permissions for creating files
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 06 2001 - 13:40:24 EDT

I believe that this was fixed after the release - Try a build from CVS
(but also expect to find OTHER things broken ;)

On 06 Apr 2001 13:12:07 -0400, Christopher M. Anderson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm running netatalk 1.5pre5 on a 2.2.17-14smp kernel (redhat 6.2
> distribution). I can see the linux box in the chooser, connect via tcp,
> and open and manipulate existing files. However, whenever I copy a file
> from the mac to the linux box, or try to save a file from a mac application
> to the linux box, I get the message: "The item <item> cannot be written
> because it is locked."
>
> Wading through the .AppleDouble directory (permissions 711), existing linux
> box files have permissions 600 and an empty file by the name of the file I
> tried to save/copy with permissions 000 (hence the locking?). Similarly,
> if I try to trash an existing linux file, I am told I do not have
> permissions.
>
> I think there are some clues in my /messages log, but I'm new enough to
> linux not to know what they mean:
> at login:
> Apr 5 23:04:52 bandit afpd[19308]: dhx login: xyz
> Apr 5 23:04:52 bandit afpd[19308]: uams_dhx_pam.c :PAM: PAM Success -- No such
> file or directory
> Apr 5 23:04:52 bandit PAM_pwdb[19308]: (netatalk) session opened for user xyz b
> y (uid=0)
> Apr 5 23:04:52 bandit afpd[19308]: uams_dhx_pam.c :PAM: PAM Auth OK!: (null) --
> Inappropriate ioctl for device
> Apr 5 23:04:52 bandit afpd[19308]: login xyz (uid 500, gid 100)
>
> Then, when I try to copy a file:
>
> Apr 5 23:05:06 bandit afpd[19308]: setdirowner: chown -1/0 .AppleDouble/.Parent
> : Operation not permitted
>
> Am I having an authentication problem when I login through appletalk, and
> that's preventing me from getting thr right permissions to create files
> (and if so, how do I fix it), or do I have a something set incorrectly
> within netatalk?
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
>
> Chris
>
>
> 

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Matthew Keller
Enterprise System Analyst
Computing & Technology Services
Information Services Division
State University of NY at Potsdam

http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/

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