On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Laszlo Vecsey wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:10:48 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Laszlo Vecsey <master_at_internexus.net>
> Reply-To: codalist_at_TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu
> To: codalist_at_TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: Is CODA right for me?
> Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:15:53 -0400
> Resent-From: codalist_at_TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Juan Antonio Martinez wrote:
> 
> > On 28 Jun 1999, Soren Dayton wrote:
> > 
[...]
> 
> > 	Any suggestions will be wellcomed. The present problem is duplicate
> > the real /usr partition in server ( about 1,5Gb ) into /vicepa coda volume, 
> > setuid bits, owners and so in coda volume? ( ie: in coda client /usr will be
> > a symlink to /coda, and the user -anonymous coda log- must see correct 
> > permissions in order to execute programs )
> > 
> 
> Simple way to do that is to use the 'cp -a' unix command -- get both
> partitions mounted on a system (the real /usr, and the coda mounted
> partition), and copy between them with that command to preserve
> everything. 
> 
	Sorry: seems not explained enought: as coda administrator just did a
'cp -a' ( tar, cpio, and every variations ) and copy was fine, but when from
client try to use any command, the owner is allways "coda" and setuid
perms doesn't work. In fact, when "--preserve" option is given, get thousands
of errors like "cp: cannot restore permission XXXX on file YYYY". Seems that 
I must define all entries of /etc/passwd into list of coda users, and same 
with /etc/group entries.... but groups in coda are negative numbers... :-(

	My idea was not to define any user, just use anonymous coda login to
read and execute commands from coda's copy of /usr directory. Don't know how
to do this... even more don't know if this is possible

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