Re: [CentOS] Chmod Explaination

2007-08-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 22:30 -0400, Steve Huff wrote: > On Aug 2, 2007, at 5:58 PM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > >>As far as root not being able to, do you have selinux running? > >> > >> No, I don't have. > > > > Then I dunno why root didn't, as with selinux disabled root also > > has implicit

Re: [CentOS] Chmod Explaination

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 2, 2007, at 5:58 PM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: As far as root not being able to, do you have selinux running? No, I don't have. Then I dunno why root didn't, as with selinux disabled root also has implicit rights to all files/folders, but with selinux enabled security context c

RE: [CentOS] Chmod Explaination

2007-08-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joseph blase > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:45 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Chmod Explaination > > > > On 8/3/07, Ross S. W. Wa

Re: [CentOS] Chmod Explaination

2007-08-02 Thread joseph blase
On 8/3/07, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joseph blase > > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:33 PM > > To: CentOS mailing list &

RE: [CentOS] Chmod Explaination

2007-08-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joseph blase > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:33 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] Chmod Explaination > > Howdy list, > > I can't seem to find

[CentOS] Chmod Explaination

2007-08-02 Thread joseph blase
Howdy list, I can't seem to find any doc's explaining what's really going on behind this scenario: A user home directory had been reset to : d--- --- --- user group user_dir As root i tried to : chmod -R 750 user_dir got permission denied, my friend tried with as user that owns the director