On Thu, 04 Jul 2002, Chris Wagner wrote: > >On Fri, 05 Jul 2002, Jason Lim wrote: > >They don't have write access to its parent directory: > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ mkdir public_html > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ sudo chown root. . > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ rmdir public_html > >rmdir: `public_html': Permission denied > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ ls -la > >total 16 > >drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 5 02:28 ./ > >drwxr-xr-x 135 weasel weasel 8192 Jul 5 02:28 ../ > >drwxrwxr-x 2 weasel weasel 4096 Jul 5 02:28 public_html/
To go into some details, I have a setup like this:
(owned by) (directory)
root client1/
root client1/logs/
root client1/site1/
client1 client1/site1/cgi-bin/
client1 client1/site1/htdocs/
root client1/site2/
client1 client1/site2/cgi-bin/
client1 client1/site2/htdocs/
root client1/site3/
client1 client1/site3/cgi-bin/
client1 client1/site3/htdocs/
root client1/site4/
client1 client1/site4/cgi-bin/
client1 client1/site4/htdocs/
root client2
root client2/logs/
root client2/site1/
client2 client2/site1/cgi-bin/
client2 client2/site1/htdocs/
root client2/site2/
client2 client2/site2/cgi-bin/
client2 client2/site2/htdocs/
[..]
> But won't "rmdir ." succeed if they are in the public_html directory?
rmdirs _below_ client1/site1/cgi-bin/ and client1/site1/htdocs/ would
all work.
rmdirs of client1/site1/htdocs/, or client1/site1/cgi-bin/ themselves
will not work as that requires modifying the parent directory
(client1/site1) for which the client has no write priviliges.
[that quoting thing goes for you too]
yours,
peter
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