On Wed, 3 May 2006 12:22 pm, Dave Barton wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:26 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 9:21 am, Dave Barton wrote:
SuSE 9.3 IIRC there was a posting on this list recently, that explained the circumstances under which root was not allowed to change access privileges (permissions) of files/directories owned by root. We have just run into this problem and the only solution I have found is to scrape the files off the Linux box onto a Windows box and then pull them back as a normal user.
What type of file system? Reiserfs.
The root user is also restricted when referrring to files and directories imported from an NFS server.
You probably knew this but unless the NFS mount is done "no_root_squash" root on the mounting box gets mapped to nobody on the NFS server. I understand perfectly what you mean by
"scrape the files off the Linux box". Very embarrassing.
The only way I know for root to meet a "permission denied" (besides trying execute a non-executable) involves ATTR. SuSE turns these on by default so... There was a posting ages ago with a little demo, chattr <something> <test-file> rm <test-file> permission denied I'd look at "man chattr" and "man lsattr" it's probably either immutable or undeletable. FWIW, HIH, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 No matter how much you pay for software, you always get less than you hoped. Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.