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On 31 Jan 2008, at 22:48, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:26:08PM -0500, Davor Ocelic wrote: >> In AFS, there is a special provision made for interoperability with >> Unix - person to which a file is chowned has implicit 'all' rights >> on the file. Does this work that way in Coda too? It doesn't work that way in AFS - AFS does have some implicit rights, but if you don't have a read ACL for a directory, you can't access files in it, regardless of their ownership. > I wonder how they can do something like that reliably in a cross realm > context. Files that get written to a volume in a cell are owned by the user's ID in that cell's protection service database, not by the local UID on the machine which wrote them. Simon.Received on 2008-01-31 21:05:12