I have a debian server setup to run a minecraft server. As root i setup a location for the server in /MCMA/Minecraft/

I then made a new user for admins to manage the server with for all intense and purposes lets call this user 'serveradmin'

first i set serveradmin home dir to /MCMA/Minecraft

then what i did was give chown to serveradmin of /MCMA/Minecraft/* using -r in the command.

This seemed to work but once serveradmin deletes a directory within his home or adds new files he no longer has permission to them. How can i fix this issue

would be nice to go into details, or at least look for the real permissions. Who has rights to access the new files?

Err i have access to login as all users and i also have root access. im still a linux noob so im just learning how to do everything. If you need any information just give me the commands to retrieve it and i can screen shot it.

just add new files as you described (explain your commands) and show us how the permissions were set. Exactly.

I told you i gave serveradmin chown of the home directory i set for him so

chown -r serveradmin:ftpusers /MCMA/Minecraft/*


The result:

This seemed to work but once serveradmin deletes a directory within his home or adds new files he no longer has permission to them.


im not sure what more you want me to tell you. all the information is there.

show us how did you add new files and how were the permissions set. How did you check "he no longer has permission to them"?

so here is what happens

1. Serveradmin has ownership of all files in /mcma/minecraft/

2. serveradmin deletes /mcma/minecraft/anyfile

3. serveradmin uploads a new /mcma/minecraft/anyfile

4. now server admin does not own that new file that he uploaded, instead its owned by root and he can no longer touch it.


so it goes

From: http://i.imgur.com/4A8Pk0Q.png

To: http://i.imgur.com/N3V4lQ1.png

how this upload works?

with sftp

how is this upload executed?

with filezilla via sftp... i don't think your heading in the right direction. the issue is with server permissions, not uploading issue client side.

actually the files created by root (as far as I see), probably because of the settings/usage of sftp, but you gave almost no information just a few unusable words. You need to find out what's happened exactly and do not try to think about your wishes and thought.
You need to accept the fact, the result and you need to find out the steps how it was produced.

i told you everything i did tho and you just keep asking questions ive already answered... im so confused

no, I asked to explain what have you done exactly and you only told sftp was used. That was insufficient. I need to know how how sftp configured, how the ftp was initiated (which user, ....) to be able to go further....

It was configured for a normal user login as ServerAdmin and not root