I have a vsftp server running, and we have problems sporadically where people (not the person who uploaded the file) cannot delete files uploaded from OSX machines. We never have this problem with files uploaded by PCs. Anyone ever heard of this or know what I should check? The users uploading the files all belong to the same group.
Also, I think if you log in to the FTP server with another OSX machine, it will let you delete them.
I'm looking at the folders now, they have drwxrwxr-x. When i try to delete them from a PC, it gives me a 550 Remove directory operation failed.

Can you post the output of ls -al and point us to the files that were uploaded by the OSX machines?

unfortunately, they killed all the files from the folders, but the folders themselves cannot be deleted. the users trying to do the delete are in the same group as the accounts uploading.

Well then can you post ls -al of the directories? I just want to confirm the permissions and rwx flags. Thanks man!

drwxrwxr-x 2 username photogroup 4096 Feb 21 00:03 0220-t3
drwxrwxr-x 2 username photogroup 4096 Feb 21 00:03 2020-t2

Hi,

can you try lsattr command?:

lsattr -d dir
lsattr file

That would explain why. Either a user would have to be a part of the photogroup group or root would have to remove them. What you could do is chown the directories to change the group of what your user is a part of, or just add your user to the photogroup group.

only the directories exist, but they both give ------------- then the folder name

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that's the problem, the users trying to do this are in photogroup. I just re-confirmed looking in passwd, they're all in group 1001.

So then add them to photogroup? Or are you looking for a different way?

the user who uploads the folders that we can't delete is a member of photogroup. the users trying to delete the folders from a PC are also members of photogroup. that's why I dont understand since they're all in the same group, unless the lsattr of all dashes gives a clue.

Are you the admin on this server?

yes

So then can't you remove those directories being root?

I could if I log into the server as root. But what i'm trying to accomplish is to have the users delete the folders just like they delete the files inside of these folders.

Ok. Well then do you know the exact error they get when they try to remove them?