On Oct 7, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Jeremy Hooks wrote:
4. however, after upload, the file has the ownership A:B (i.e,
owned by
A, group B) with permissions -rw-r--r--. So B does not have
permission to
delete the file.
-rw-r--r-- 1 user_a user_b 154879 Oct 7 08:40 data_file.csv
Hi John.
Correct me if I am wrong but permission to delete a file depends on
the
users permissions for the containing directory. If B has write
permission
on the directory then B can delete the file. However you will
likely need
to use 'rm -f'.
Argh!!!!
As a newbie admin, I really have a tough time with permissions. I
swear I got a permissions error when I tried to delete this dang
file, but I just logged in as B and was able to delete it just fine.
Of course this is because B owns the directory.
I guess I must have done something boneheaded an hour or two ago...
gosh, I hate wasting time. Mine, and the lists, of course.
Well, thanks to Valintin, I did figure out how to change the umask
for pure-ftpd. So now uploaded files have the permissions I wanted,
even if they are not needed.
And thanks to the rest, I figured out it was working all along... And
now I can't even duplicate the error I saw before...
<sigh> Does this ever get any easier??? How can any one person
remember all this stuff???
-- John
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