Can't allow user write permissions to another owned directory

seriosbrad · 02-08-2012, 09:55 AM

I have user1 that needs to write to a directory owned by user2 but I keep getting errors that user1 does not have permission to do so.

I have put both user1 and user2 in the same examplegroup.

user1 is writing out from a ramdisk onto the hard disk where user2 resides but I don't think this is an issue?

To sum it up:
I need to write from the ramdisk into a web directory in user2's public_html/subdirectory but user1 can't get the correct permissions despite being in the same group. All files in the the directory were recursively chmodded to 777

The OS is CentOS 5.7

cbtshare · 02-08-2012, 12:05 PM

After giving the permissions try issuing command 3 times so there'll be nothing in buffer:

Quote:

#sync

Is the group that both users are in able to write to users documents(has write permission). ls -l the folder where the files are an post the output.also please do

Quote:

cat /etc/group

to verify that they are in the same group/

seriosbrad · 02-08-2012, 12:38 PM

ok here are the groups from running cat/etc/group

Code:

root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin,adm
adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:root
lp:x:7:daemon,lp
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root
mail:x:12:mail,postfix
news:x:13:news
uucp:x:14:uucp
man:x:15:
games:x:20:
gopher:x:30:
dip:x:40:
ftp:x:50:
lock:x:54:
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:
rpm:x:37:
dbus:x:81:
floppy:x:19:
vcsa:x:69:
utmp:x:22:
utempter:x:35:
slocate:x:21:
pcap:x:77:
rpc:x:32:
named:x:25:
mailnull:x:47:
smmsp:x:51:
sshd:x:74:
haldaemon:x:68:
ntp:x:38:
screen:x:84:
audio:x:63:
apache:x:48:
mysql:x:27:
seriosbrad:x:500:apache
distcache:x:94:
webalizer:x:67:
mailman:x:41:apache
dovecot:x:97:
postgres:x:26:
postdrop:x:90:
postfix:x:89:
clam:x:101:
baronsofbullshit:x:501:apache
baronsofbullshit.com:x:502:
tf2:x:503:
livemap:x:504:seriosbrad,baronsofbullshit,root

seriosbrad and baronsofbullshit are the user1 and user2 in my first post (root is in there just because i was testing)

seriosbrad needs to write into /home/baronsofbullshit/public_html/map

I ran

Code:

chown -Rv baronsofbullshit:livemap /home/baronsofbullshit/public_html/map

The chown applied, but I still don't have permission

Edit: forgot this

Output of ls -l

Code:

total 52
-rwxrwxrwx 1 baronsofbullshit livemap  893 Jan 30 02:43 config.js
drwxrwxrwx 3 baronsofbullshit livemap 4096 Jan 10 23:26 css
drwxrwxrwx 5 baronsofbullshit livemap 4096 Jan 20 16:54 faces
drwxrwxrwx 2 baronsofbullshit livemap 4096 Jan 10 23:27 images
-rwxrwxrwx 1 baronsofbullshit livemap  317 Jan 30 15:31 inactive.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 baronsofbullshit livemap 2098 Jan 30 15:31 index.html
drwxrwxrwx 2 baronsofbullshit livemap 4096 Jan 10 23:27 js
drwxrwxrwx 5 baronsofbullshit livemap 4096 Jan 20 16:54 main
drwxrwxrwx 2 baronsofbullshit livemap 4096 Feb  7 09:07 standalone
drwxrwxrwx 8 baronsofbullshit livemap 4096 Jan 22 21:45 tiles
-rwxrwxrwx 1 baronsofbullshit livemap  630 Jan 30 15:31 up.aspx
-rwxrwxrwx 1 baronsofbullshit livemap  760 Jan 30 15:31 up.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 baronsofbullshit livemap   33 Jan 30 15:31 version.js

deep27ak · 02-09-2012, 05:59 AM

you have changed the ownership of a directory inside the home directory of user1 and by default any other user is not allowed to enter into another user's home directory so you need to give permission to user2 to enter into user1 home directory

cbtshare · 02-09-2012, 07:31 AM

I think it'd be much easier to restore permissions as they were so all is owned by baronsofbullshit and the group baronsofbullshit :

Quote:

chown -Rv baronsofbullshit:baronsofbullshit /home/baronsofbullshit/public_html/map

then

Quote:

gpasswd -a seriosbrad baronsofbullshit

this will allow seriosbrad to write to files baron creates in the future (once you done newgrp to move him to another group)...