From: "afazio (Alfred Fazio)" <alfred.fazio@...>
Date: 2013-02-20T02:26:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:52537] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7886][Open] Not recognizing unix group permissions for Mac OS X (Mountain Lion) Active Directory (AD) mobile accounts


Issue #7886 has been reported by afazio (Alfred Fazio).

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Bug #7886: Not recognizing unix group permissions for Mac OS X (Mountain Lion) Active Directory (AD) mobile accounts
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7886

Author: afazio (Alfred Fazio)
Status: Open
Priority: High
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p374 (2013-01-15 revision 38858) [x86_64-darwin12.2.1]


The following bug occurs in 1.9.3 p374 and also in 1.8.7 p371

When using a Active Directory mobile account in Mac OS X (only tested thus far with Mountain Lion), Ruby does not honor Unix group membership when testing file permissions.

Let me give an example:

% whoami
afazio

# I am in the "rvm" group:

% groups
<snip> rvm <snip>

# Let's create a simple file:
% touch test-file
% sudo chown root:rvm test-file
% sudo chmod 660 test-file

% ls -l test-file
-rw-rw----  1 root  rvm  4 Feb 19 11:43 test-file

# At this moment only root and members of "rvm" group can modify test-file
# OS recognizes I have correct permissions:
% echo "test data" >> test-file
% cat test-file
test data

# However, Ruby does not:
% irb
1.9.3-p374 :001 > File.exists?("test-file")
 => true
1.9.3-p374 :002 > File.writable?("test-file")
 => false

# To further illustrate, I **can** write to this file in Ruby:

pry(main)> File.open("test-file", "w") do |f|
pry(main)*   f.write("wee")  
pry(main)* end  
3
pry(main)> quit

% cat test-file
wee



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