Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:23:53 -0400 From: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> To: Jeremy Hooks <jeremyhooks@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thorny (for me) permissions problem Message-ID: <D13B1383-C327-44D6-B84E-A438599222ED@identry.com> In-Reply-To: <bf2fbe6d0810070634p4ea1b086j96363e7d308268eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <0C63914A-E3A3-4FC7-92AD-797F407A5FF7@identry.com> <bf2fbe6d0810070634p4ea1b086j96363e7d308268eb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Oct 7, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Jeremy Hooks wrote: >>> 4. however, after upload, the file has the ownership A:B (i.e, >>> owned by > A, group B) with permissions -rw-r--r--. So B does not have > permission to > delete the file. > -rw-r--r-- 1 user_a user_b 154879 Oct 7 08:40 data_file.csv > > Hi John. > > Correct me if I am wrong but permission to delete a file depends on > the > users permissions for the containing directory. If B has write > permission > on the directory then B can delete the file. However you will > likely need > to use 'rm -f'. Argh!!!! As a newbie admin, I really have a tough time with permissions. I swear I got a permissions error when I tried to delete this dang file, but I just logged in as B and was able to delete it just fine. Of course this is because B owns the directory. I guess I must have done something boneheaded an hour or two ago... gosh, I hate wasting time. Mine, and the lists, of course. Well, thanks to Valintin, I did figure out how to change the umask for pure-ftpd. So now uploaded files have the permissions I wanted, even if they are not needed. And thanks to the rest, I figured out it was working all along... And now I can't even duplicate the error I saw before... <sigh> Does this ever get any easier??? How can any one person remember all this stuff??? -- John
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