Re: Chmod Explaination

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On 8/3/07, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of joseph blase
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:33 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Chmod Explaination
>
> Howdy list,
>
>  I can't seem to find any doc's explaining what's really
> going on behind this scenario:
>
> A user home directory had been reset to :
>
> d--- --- --- user group user_dir
>
>
> As root i tried to :
>
> chmod -R 750 user_dir
>
> got permission denied, my friend tried with as user that owns
> the directory to:
>
> chmod -R 750 user_dir  and voila it works.
>
> My question is how come did it work, since the user_dir
> doesn't have a owner permission attached and why user root
> has been denied with changing the mode?

Owners always have rights to change permission on a file/folder.


Even those that were reset? I thinking that it's good as no permission cause it has  only d--- --- ---   user_dir.

 

As far as root not being able to, do you have selinux running?

No, I don't have.
 

-Ross


-Joseph

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