Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-19 Thread perryh
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? To remove anything that is located in /home, including a directory such as /home/my_repos, user svn would need write permission in

Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-18 Thread BSD_Newbie
. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unable-to-delete-directory-even-after-change-of-ownership.-tp21085175p21085175.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:27 PM, BSD_Newbie it_mana...@gmx.com wrote: 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

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
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.

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-18 Thread BSD_Newbie
...@freebsd.org -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unable-to-delete-directory-even-after-change-of-ownership.-tp21085175p21085301.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, the directory . had owner and group as svn and repo_admin respectively the directory .. had owner and group as root and wheel respectively. Try to cut and paste example, it gives more detailed information when we read the exact output of the command. Olivier