[Info-vax] Setting Default Owner of a File

[jbriggs444]

On May 2, 11:26 am, gartm... at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph
Gartmann) wrote:
> In article <58d49ccf-21f5-462c-b1a5-83b77ba63... at n11g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>, abrsvc <dansabrservi... at yahoo.com> writes:
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> >All of the discussions here have been related to the access and
> >protection NOT ownership as initially requested.  I still believe that
> >in order for the initial request to work properly WITH disk quotas.  I
> >have tested this on V7.3-2 with teh following scenerio and file
> >ownership is as listed below:
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> >User1 - Name: Filetest with UIC [543,123]
> >User2 - Name: Filet1    with UIC [543,321]
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> >I have used the directory [filetest] as the target which is owned by
> >[543,123] and has protection (rwe,rwe,re,re)
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> >Files created by account Filet1 in [filetest] are owned by [543,123]
> >NOT [543,321].  In other words, the quota is consumed by the directory
> >owner as requested by the initial poster.
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> >Please note that both accounts have GRPPRV enabled.  Without the
> >GRPPRV, the file create fails with an insufficient priv violation.
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> This was my initial thought and setup as well. But with FTP access it didn't
> work this way.

This sounds like a bug^H^H^H idiosyncracy in your FTP package.  It
would
appear that the FTP server process is not using the "GRPPRV" privilege
on behalf of its client.

Possibly a different FTP server would behave differently in this
respect.
You could grab one and see.