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Re: Odd permissions problem


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:33:59AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

This one has me stumped. Occasionally I get "permission denied" type
problems when rsh'ing to a machine and creating or updating a file I
would think I should be able to create or update. I don't understand why
this happens. So I was playing around trying to categorize it:

$ pwd
/home/adefaria
$ touch foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Aug 19 10:47 foo
$ rm foo

OK, I can touch and create files. Note /home/defaria is actually on a
server (i.e. I've mounted //<server>/<share> to /home). However if I try
to do this through rsh

$ rsh $(hostname) touch foo
touch: creating `foo': Permission denied

it fails. Now I am myself:

$ rsh $(hostname) "id && touch file"
uid=1370(adefaria) gid=513(Domain Users) groups=0(Everyone),512(Domain
Admins),513(Domain
Users),1170(Everybody),1382(ITSupport),1354(Operations),1331(Software)
touch: creating `foo': Permission denied

Why is this?

Does `rsh hostname ls' actually list the files in your home dir?
Yes:

$ rsh $(hostname) ls -l
total 19341
drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Aug 15 07:52 Backup
drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 28672 Jul 2 08:33 Bin
drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Jan 30 2002 Clearquest
drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Mar 5 09:01 Configuration
dr-xr-xr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 12288 Aug 19 16:45 Documents
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1185 Jun 20 16:51 Files4bug.pm
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1249 May 23 16:29 Filter.pm
drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Oct 11 2001 Folder Settings
drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 May 8 09:37 GNUstep
drwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain A 0 Jul 24 17:14 RESTORED
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain A 19640124 Jul 25 13:06 Spiderman (WTC trailer).mpg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1217 Aug 2 11:51 ViewTimings.txt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 5494 Mar 8 15:06 _viminfo
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 703 Jun 17 14:55 bugline.cgi
drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Dec 28 2001 build_test
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1388 May 29 14:55 checkcq
-rwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 2420 May 15 17:30 cmplab.pl
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 2757 Jun 21 09:34 cqc
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 8484 Jun 25 15:29 cqd
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 861 Jul 11 13:33 cqds.c
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 852 Jul 5 17:42 cqds.c~
-rwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 28908 Jul 11 13:33 cqds.exe
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1842 Jul 5 15:54 daemonize2.c
-rwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 303 Oct 11 2001 desktop.ini
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1629 May 23 16:52 filterObj.pl
-rw-rw-r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 180 Aug 19 08:44 foo.c
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 7429 Apr 2 15:41 gdbtk.ini
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 3080 Jun 25 15:43 getbug
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1543 Jun 14 13:34 hellod.pl
-rw-rw-r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 22050 Aug 15 13:20 sf
-rwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 2916 Jun 17 10:05 sigs.pl
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1537 Jun 11 11:29 sockclnt.pl
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 1646 Jun 11 11:29 socksrv.pl
drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Dec 28 2001 stress_build
drwxrwxr-x 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Aug 9 15:43 test
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 820 Jun 26 14:50 test.pl
-rw-rw-r-- 1 adefaria Domain U 280 May 16 16:37 test.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administ Domain U 266 Jun 17 14:06 test2.pl
drwxrwxrwx 1 adefaria Domain U 0 Aug 19 10:47 tmp
dr-xr-xr-x 1 Administ Domain A 8192 Jul 24 14:13 www




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