From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] permissions
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:00:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikOG14RFavHF_GOk3d_0rVE5qh=n=Bg3C_C_2TR@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <621112A569DAE948AD25CCDCF1C075332999F1@dolly.ntdom.cupdx>
group membership checking is up to the particular file server. if it
doesn't implement it, it wont be enforced.
-Skip
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
> I probably need to go read the papers regarding permissions 10 more times,
> but this just doesn't seem right to me. I'm logged in as 'ben' via
> drawterm:
>
> cpu% cat /adm/users
> adm:adm:adm:sys,bootes,ben
> ben:ben::adm,sys
> bootes:bootes::ben
> glenda:glenda:glenda:
> none:none::
> noworld:noworld::
> sys:sys::glenda,bootes,ben
> upas:upas::
> cpu% ls -l /dev/sd00 | grep nvram
> --rw-r----- S 0 bootes bootes 512 Mar 7 2010 /dev/sd00/nvram
> cpu% cat /dev/sd00/nvram
> cat: can't open /dev/sd00/nvram: '/dev/sd00/nvram' permission denied
> cpu%
>
> Does that not say that if I'm a member of the bootes group, I should be
> able to cat that?
>
> Thanks in advance for not flogging me with the manual, and forgiveness
> for spending too much time in UNIX-land lately! :)
>
> -Ben
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-17 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-17 5:35 Benjamin Huntsman
2010-10-17 6:00 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2010-10-17 6:19 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-17 6:36 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2010-10-17 13:59 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-17 16:01 ` blstuart
2010-10-17 16:11 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-17 17:17 ` ron minnich
2010-10-17 18:11 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2010-10-17 18:18 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-17 19:17 ` blstuart
2010-10-17 19:59 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2010-10-17 20:40 ` blstuart
2010-10-17 21:22 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2010-10-17 22:56 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-18 9:00 ` Steve Simon
2010-10-18 9:29 ` dave.l
2010-10-18 9:34 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-18 11:07 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-10-18 11:11 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-17 22:58 ` blstuart
2010-10-19 18:18 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2010-10-17 23:00 ` erik quanstrom
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-18 14:28 Russ Cox
2001-10-23 20:34 ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-10-24 8:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-18 14:00 Russ Cox
2001-10-18 14:12 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-18 13:56 Lucio De Re
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