Re: chown under 3.0

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From: Louis Mamakos
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:23

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In article <1992Sep28.214104.25073@lsa.umich.edu> Hal.Varian@umich.edu writes:
>In article <28SEP92.15351318@enh.nist.gov> aoml@enh.nist.gov  
>writes:
>> We just add a new hp drive purchased from TECOR, when ever we  
>change the onwership of user's files, the whole disk's ownership  
>randemly changed back to one
>> of our user after few seconds.
>> 
>>         The command I use is chown -R directory-name
>> 
>>         With -R option, chown seem not only going decending  
>but also going
>> up to the whole disk.
>> 
>>         has anybody experienced that problem ?
>>         We are using 2 NeXT stations trubo clolrs on a small  
>network
>> 
>> aoml,Ying-Yuang Chen
>
>The same thing happened to me with my Fujitsu drive.  I was  
>running 3.0 beta PR2 when it happened, so I decided to wait for  
>the official release before I tried to figure out what was going  
>on.  

Yes, don't allow the workspace to auto-mount the disk.  When it does,
the file system is mounted such the each file appears to be owned by
the user that's currently logged in.  If you think about it, that's
the correct behaviour for removable media such as a floppy.

The solution is configure an entry in /etc/fstab and wherever the hell
it goes in netinfo for that file system.

louie

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