arla finder problem

[Thomas Jordan]

Thanks Harald (and Love and Magnus),

I have changed the unix permission bits and all is good with my finder (and
my Boss!). I did not apply the patch.

Thanks for the prompt reply and arla in total.

Best regards,
    Tom


On 5/25/2002 8:12, "Harald Barth" <haba at pdc.kth.se> wrote:

> 
>> My OSX finder is confused about some permissions in AFS space.
> 
> I guess that the finder tries to be smart by guessing if you are
> allowed to access files based on owner and permission bits instead of
> using the access() system call or just doing open(). My guess is that
> if you change the bits on the directory that do not matter in AFS to
> look like that you are allowed to copy the files (chmod o+w .), the
> finder will probably be more tolerant.
<snip>
> 
> Harald.
> 

Thomas Jordan
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