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03-05-2014

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[Solved] AIX not following permission rules on group

Has anyone ever encountered this? It's one of those it was working Monday but not today issues.

We have an account pcadmin in the group utl, its supposed to read the files in utl. No issues on Monday, but today pcadmin can't read anything owned by utl. Below you can see it still has the group and the group ownership of the files. My instinct is reboot the host, but its prod and the request will take awhile to get approved. Any other thoughts?

Code:

$ id pcadmin
uid=30101(pcadmin) gid=10051(pcadmin) groups=1(staff),10000(infra),31008(pc_pdc),31007(pc_frm),10012(omg),10003(bpr),
31019(embsft),10068(pcdev),31005(cqsadm),10303(sfubpr),10067(bpftpg),
10139(cqs),10041(act),10011(bil),10014(ccr),30125(utl)
$ groups pcadmin
pcadmin : pcadmin staff infra pc_pdc pc_frm omg bpr embsft pcdev cqsadm sfubpr bpftpg cqs act bil ccr utl
$ ls -ltr
total 8
-rw-rw----    1 prutl    utl             632 Mar 05 21:43 CST_END_TO_END_PF.txt
-rw-rw----    1 prutl    utl              15 Mar 05 22:45 test
-rw-rw----    1 prutl    utl              12 Mar 05 22:48 jeremy.txt
$ cat jeremy.txt
cat: 0652-050 Cannot open jeremy.txt.
$ uptime
  10:50PM   up 83 days,  16:31,  9 users,  load average: 2.61, 3.33, 4.02

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gvfs-cat

gvfs-cat(1)							   User Commands						       gvfs-cat(1)

NAME

       gvfs-cat - print a file to standard output using the VFS system

SYNOPSIS

       gvfs-cat URI

DESCRIPTION

       gvfs-cat prints a file to standard output using the virtual file system to access the file via a URI.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       URI	Specifies the file location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Cat a File From a Web Server

       example% gvfs-cat http://www.sun.com

       Example 2: Cat a Local File

       example% gvfs-cat file:///home/user/README.txt

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gvfs-cat       Executable to print a file to standard output using the VFS system

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-gvfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1) gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1), gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-move(1),
       gvfs-rename(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES

       Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    25 Mar 2008 						       gvfs-cat(1)

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