On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Georges Toth wrote:
> it should work if you do it like this:
>
> bevs -r appds2 # where appds2 is your virtual server
> chown admin.admin /etc
>
>
> (but if you do that you only change the owner of the /etc dir, not the files
> in that dir...)
>
never.. never.. never (ad infinitum ;)...
never chown adim.admin /etc !!!!
that's a very bad thing!!!!... if you need, for some reason,
give admin write privileges to /etc, you can always
"taint" that directory (+t in chmod).
Cheers!
Marcos
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> ps: it doesn't work if you create a user on your hosting-server and change
> the owner of the dir in a virtual-host, to that user; because every
> virtual-host has it's own users, user-ids
>
>
> regards,
> Georges Toth
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ana Paula
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 18:23 PM
> To: Freevsd-Support
> Subject: Changing ownership in a virtual server
>
>
>
> I need to change the ownership of a directory inside of a virtual
> server.
> Now it is as root, and I need to move for admin.
>
> If I try logged like admin, I get this error:
>
> [admin@appds2 root]$ chown admin.admin /etc
> chown: /etc: Numerical result out of range
> [admin@appds2 root]$
>
> If I try from hosting server, I get:
>
> [root@testserver /root]# chown admin.admin /home/vsd/vs/appds2/etc
> chown: admin.admin: invalid user
>
> So, I add the user admin in hosting server (useradd admin) and I got to
> give the command, but now, the etc directory it is like this:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 14 501 501 4096 Oct 31 05:23 etc
>
> And not:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 14 admin admin 4096 Oct 31 05:23 etc
>
> With certainty I made everything wrong.
> How can I make that with success?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Ana Paula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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