Re: Permission Denied on "cd /sfs/server..."

David Caldwell <david <at> porkrind.org> writes:

> I'm guessing that there's something wrong with the Mac client 
> authentication, but I don't know where to go from here.

So after poking around for a couple hours tonight I discovered a large
installation problem and have since had some measure of success. On my Mac
client I used gnu "stow" to manage my /usr/local direrctory. I gave myself write
access to the stow dir so I wouldn't have to be root to to "make install".
However, tonight I discovered sfs uses suidconnect to get its gid correct. Since
I was installing as my self the g+s bit was not being set on the suidconnect
program, nor was its group being changed to the sfs group. Installing as root
fixed that, and I was finally able to connect up to my linux server and poke
around. Yay!

However, it's still not completely smooth. I'm getting an error when I do
"sfskey login":

$ sfskey login me@myserver
Passphrase for me@myserver/1024:  
SFS Login as me@myserver
sfskey: fatal: agent: RPC: Unable to receive

At that point I *am* authenticated because I can poke around in the filesystem
and I can't before I log in (I get permission denied). But I cannot run "sfskey
list" and, more importantly, the handy "myserver" symlink isn't being created in
/sfs.

The portmapper seems to be running. I don't know much about RPC. Any ideas?

-David