4 May
2005
4 May
'05
9:22 p.m.
Are you using "mixed" mode for security? Whenever I've seen that happen in the past it was become some windows admin made some global permissions change on a mixed-mode share.
I never use mixed mode, personally. I just don't like it. I've never had sudden permission changes like that on my servers whereas a co-worker who uses mixed-mode has had them many times. Others mileage will probably vary.
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Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator
SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Coxe [mailto:mcoxe@opsware.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:33 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Home directories become owned by root
Hi,
We have a Netapp using shared NFS/CIFS.
Yesterday several accounts became owned by root.
Users couldn't even cd to their homes via NFS,
though from the Windows side all looked OK.
As root from the administration server I couldn't
access their directories either.
I thought of restoring from .snapshot but those
directories (nightly.o, etc) are also onwed by root
and are inaccessable from the Unix side.
The only way to allow access was to use SecureShare
from the Windows side and change ownership from
"root" back to the username.
Files & subdirectories appear to be owned by the user
but the Unix permissions are all set to 777, and they
can't access these files/directories. I could reset
them via SecureShare (and did so for 2 users) but they
won't be what the user(s) originally set them to.
Ontap: NetApp Release 6.1.2D1
Filer: F740
Anyone have an idea how I can restore the original
ownership & file permissions other that restoring
from tape.
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Michael Coxe, IT
mcoxe@opsware.com