filePro permissions (was Re: Post-it(R) Notes Mail Message)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting stanley (Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:35 Z):
[...]
> When filepro lockfiles are created why is the permission set to 600
> (rw-------)

Because that is the proper permissions for filePro files.

> The problem I’m having is that if I remove the lockfiles,
> the new lockfile will be owned by the name of the logged in user and not
> filepro.

That means the permissions on the filePro executable are wrong.  Run
the setperms script.

> This of-course will not allow anyone else to log in.
>
> And to really break the system, all I need to do is run the “Set
> permissions and ownerships” menu item under the utilities menu. 
Then
> nothing works… permissions problems everywhere…

Then you did something wrong.  Can you define "nothing works" and
"permissions problems everywhere"?

> What is going on here and how does this whole thing work?  I know that
> all the work is done as su “filepro” or somethingf like that.
 Any white
> papers?

filePro is run as setuid filepro, meaning that the filePro executables
run as if you were logged in as "filepro".  The filePro files themselves
are not accessible to anyone other than uid "filepro" (and "root", of
course).

If you run dclerk and get an error, what are the permissions/ownership
of dclerk, as well as the entire tree down to the filename in the error?
(And, what is the exact error message?)


P.S.  Is it really necessary to include a 100K picture of what your
e-mail would look like if it were written on a Post-It note?  Not to
mention the subject of the e-mail being unrelated to the message.

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