Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:38:58 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: glen.j.barber@gmail.com Cc: it_manager@gmx.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership. Message-ID: <200812190338.mBJ3cwY0087814@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310812181931l20d0fae2p9885d946f329054c@mail.gmail.com> (glen.j.barber@gmail.com) References: <21085175.post@talk.nabble.com> <4ad871310812181931l20d0fae2p9885d946f329054c@mail.gmail.com>
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> > e) as root, executed the following command. > > chown svn:repo_admin /home/my_repos > > > > f) verified that the file permissions for /home/my_repos is correctly set > > after the change in ownership. > > > > > > Here is the problem I encountered > > When I log in as svn, I am placed in the folder /home/svn. > > As svn, when I try to delete the folder (/home/my_repos), I get the error > > "Permission denied". > > > > Why do I get this error when I (svn) am the owner of that directory? > > > > However, I have no problem deleting a directory under /home/svn. > > > > My guess is you should've used the -r flag with chown (recursive). Would be -R (upper case) I think. As for the error: what is the output of: ls -lo /home ls -lo /home/my_repos Olivier
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