Hey everyone,
  We had a minor problem here at work and I thought I would bounce this off
the list.  By accident, a user changed permissions to 077 rather than 777 on
a temporary directory in /tmp giving the following results.

d---rwxrwx 2 abc111 gabcd     4096 Apr 20 12:08 dstpatch

Now that user cannot change the permissions, cannot delete the directory,
cannot read or write the directory.  As a member of the group "gabcd" and
since the world has rwx permissions on this directory, why can she not
change the permissions and / or access the directory at all?  I am a member
of the group and can create files in the directory or delete files out of
the directory but I cannot rename or delete the directory itself and cannot
change permissions on it.  Outside of the root user doing a chmod (and this
includes using sudo), is there any way to resolve this issue?

Thanks,

Andy

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"NLUG" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to