*Very* weird. I thought owner could change permissions even if he accidentally did that to himself...
Hmmm. Guess it depends on the OS or the filesystem. You got me. Wish I could help you. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Nashville, Tennessee USA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
