AutoSYNC Software User's Guide (Update 17)

OSS File Synchronization
HP AutoSYNC User’s Guide—522580-018
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Ownership and Security
As mentioned above in Modification Timestamp of Symbolic Links, TIMEEXACT is
ignored for symbolic links.
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The RENAMEOPEN option is not supported for OSS files. If a destination file is
open at the time of the synchronization, it will not be synchronized but a warning is
written to the log file and synchronization continues with the next file or directory.
The BACKUP[INFILE] for OSS file sets is an entry-sequenced file that contains the
names of the files and directories to be synchronized in addition to internal file
information. Specify the KEEPB[ACKUPINFILE] option to preserve this file for
debugging purposes.
Ownership and Security
Ownership of OSS Files
AutoSYNC propagates the standard file and directory security.
Unlike Guardian, OSS does not allow AutoSYNC to "give" ownership of files to another
user, or to set the group ID to another group, unless the user is SUPER.SUPER. The
user always becomes the owner of the files on the destination file set, unless the user
is SUPER.SUPER. This means each user can only synchronize their own files unless:
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The user is SUPER.SUPER. The Super ID always has permission to synchronize
files for other user IDs.
Note that if the destination is on a remote system, the remote destination
synchronization process must also be configured to run as a local process. See
Running the Destination Synchronization Process as a Local Process on
page 3-21 for configuration instructions.
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The SYNCHRONIZE or ADD SYNCFILESET option OWNER owner-ID is specified
and the user initiating the synchronization is the same as owner-ID or, the
OWNERGROUP ownergroup-ID is specified and the group ID is the same as the
ownergroup-ID. In these cases the destination files are all owned by the user. If the
OWNER option is omitted and the files are not owned by the user, an error 4001,
permission denied, is returned. Likewise, if the OWNERGROUP is omitted and the
group ID is not the group ID of the user, an error 4001, permission denied, is
returned.
Security of OSS Files
The security of the destination file or directory is the same as the source file or
directory, except for WRITE access. WRITE access on the destination files is set to
allow subsequent synchronizations, much like PURGE security for Guardian files.
(There is no PURGE security for OSS files.) If the user is the owner of the source file
or directory but did not have WRITE access to the source file set, WRITE access on
the destination OSS files is set as follows: