Bug#524108: openoffice.org: all documents open read only from afs filesystem

[Angel Marin <anmar@anmar.eu.org>]

Andrew J Perrin wrote:
> An interesting update: the problem does not seem to exist with 
> OpenOffice native files (OpenDocument), i.e., .odt and .ods files. It 
> happens with the same files saved in Microsoft formats, i.e., .doc and 
> .xls, in the same directories.

We get this for all document formats where user opening the file does 
not have regular unix perms to write the file.

This looks like openoffice 3 trying to be smart figuring that if file 
perms are 644 and you're not the owner you won't be able to write to the 
file ... that's correct except for filesystems like afs that have their 
own acl system and completely ignore the regular unix perms.

So it looks like an upstream screw up in the oo.org 3 cycle.

As a workaround you can chmod all openoffice files to 666 and folders to 
777 and let afs handle read/write access when it has to.