[CentOS] Permissions problem

2010-03-04 Thread Sean Carolan
What am I doing wrong here? I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory instead of /etc/group: [scaro...@watcher:/var/cvs]$ touch test.txt touch: cannot touch `test.txt': Permission denied [scaro...@watcher:/var/cvs]$ ls -ld

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

2010-03-04 Thread Marko A. Jennings
On Thu, March 4, 2010 2:00 pm, Sean Carolan wrote: What am I doing wrong here? I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory instead of /etc/group: [scaro...@watcher:/var/cvs]$ touch test.txt touch: cannot touch `test.txt':

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

2010-03-04 Thread Sean Carolan
What is the output of 'ls -l /var/cvs/test.txt' ? Marko No, it doesn't exist. Oddly I have another user called cfmaster who can write files in there just fine: [cfmas...@watcher cvs]$ pwd /var/cvs [cfmas...@watcher cvs]$ touch test.txt [cfmas...@watcher cvs]$ id cfmaster uid=5101(cfmaster)

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

2010-03-04 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 4 March 2010 19:24, Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com wrote: No, it doesn't exist.  Oddly I have another user called cfmaster who can write files in there just fine: When was the user scarolan added to the cvsgrp group? Have you logged out and back in since? Ben

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

2010-03-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com wrote: What am I doing wrong here?  I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory instead of /etc/group: You might want to check that the cvsgrp group ID in /etc/group

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

2010-03-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:52 -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com wrote: What am I doing wrong here? I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory instead of /etc/group: You

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

2010-03-04 Thread Sean Carolan
having a group with the same name in both /etc/group and LDAP groups would be the surest path to insanity. Likewise, for /etc/passwd and LDAP users. I just needed to log out and back in again. Thanks for all your help! ___ CentOS mailing list