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Hi Jan, The only person that has implemented access permisions is IN2P3 and they do it based on hostname only as they didn't want to setup a complete authentication framework as it would have been overkill for their needs. Andy On Fri, 5 May 2006, Jan Erik Sundermann wrote: > Hi, > > for our application we need to check whether a certain file can be read or > written to by the xrootd server. In the future we would like to use > credentials provided by the client user to be used to determine access > privileges. We are not sure if any current user has implemented such a setup. > > > Cheers, > > Andreas, > Jan Erik. > > > On Friday 05 May 2006 12:44, Fabrizio Furano wrote: > > Uhm, > > > > don't be sorry please. I missed that, so I am sorry... > > > > I gave a look at the protocol, and I agree with you. It seems that > > there is no way of getting the current access mode for a file. Well, I > > totally ignore what is it for in your case, since the files typically > > are owned by the server. > > > > Anyway, if it does make sense, we could speak about adding some info > > to the stat response or a new request symmetrical to chmod. From my > > point of view there is not much effort, since I have to add something > > tothe interface in the next days. Andy, what do you think? > > > > Fabrizio > > > > Andreas Petzold wrote: > > > Hi Fabrizio, > > > > > > sorry to bother you directly, but my posting to the xrootd mailing list > > > seems to have not caught anyone's attention. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Andreas > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > > > > > Subject: How to determine the access mode for a path > > > Date: Tuesday 02 May 2006 16:01 > > > From: Andreas Petzold <[log in to unmask]> > > > To: [log in to unmask] > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > we are looking for a possibility to determine the access mode of a > > > path/file on an xrootd server with XrdClientAdmin/XrdClient. Since the > > > kXR_chmod request can set the user/group/others privileges we thought > > > that there might be a way to get them from the server. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Jan Erik, > > > Andreas > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- >