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From: lau@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Registry problems AGAIN
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Date: 25 Oct 90 19:03:58 GMT
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In article <9010250649.AA01789@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov> root@VLSI-MENTOR.JPL.NASA.GOV (The vlsi-mentor SysAdmin) writes:
>What is this? I am logged in as 'root' and edrgy tells me I am
>"not authorized to perform operation"? 
>
>According to the properties, my SID *owns* the registry and the
>files the registry is based on. What gives?
>
>----
>Dave Hayes  dave@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov   
>			{ucbvax,ames}!elroy!vlsi-mentor!dave
>"Attempt to find truth by realizing that it will generally find YOU."

This is what I learned.  It may not apply to your situation.  Following the
example instructions in creating registries, I set up them to be "owned" by 
%.sys_admin.%.  This was done during the cvtrgy (converting 9.7 registries)
and not the same as the acls of the directories.

However, %.sys_admin.% is not the same as root.%.% which is different since
root usually has access to everything.  It turns out that if you are logged
on as root on the machine with the master registries, you can perform
add/changes, etc. anyway.  This is either a feature or a bug.  However,
if you are logged onto another machine, then the %.sys_admin.% is enforced
and you are not allowed to perform operations even if you are root.

My solution:  I created root.sys_admin.% so I can (if I have to) edrgy from
any machine.  I haven't actually tried edrgy as for example, lau.sys_admin
so I don't know if that works.  Hope this helps.


Yan.
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