Conference smurf::ase

1898.0. "owner can't write file after failed over" by HGOSPS::MICKWIDLAM () Wed Feb 26 1997 04:42

    Hi,
    
    I'm not very familiar with DECsafe and thus don't know if this problem
    asked before.
    
    I have a customer got some files created (in a database service) from
    one host with the user "oracle". On the other host, the user "oracle"
    also exist with same uid and gid:
    
    oracle:Nologin:17:26:Oracle:/usr/users/oracle:/bin/sh
    
    The files are protected with owner read+write and group read-only. The
    original host was down and the service failed over to the second host.
    But the user "oracle", who is supposed to be the owner, was not able to
    write to the file. "ls -l" indicated that the owner is "oracle", this
    showed that the uids match and the user should be able to write. The
    customer found that only if the group protection was set to read+write,
    the user "oracle" was able to write. That means, the user "oracle" on
    the second host can write the file with group protection, not the
    owner while it was.
    
    Anyone seen this kind of problem before? Enhanced security is enabled
    in both systems.
    
    Thanks and regards,
    Mickwid Lam.