On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:42:55PM -0500, Curtis Rey wrote:
Question? The file /home/curtis (formerly the directory /home/curtis) won't let me delete it, remove, do a chown, chmod, etc... No matter whether I login as "Root" or the user "curtis". I can't get rid of the silly thing (and I'm getting paranoid - "was I hacked?") When ever I try to change its say that I dont have the permission/authority. Under "Ownership" it lists the user as "???" and the group as "446" (and I have been unable to figure what group 448 is). How can I change this or get rid of the file /home/curtis (formerly the home directory /home/curtis)?
Login as root and do ls -l / from command prompt. Look at the permissions of /home. To delete a file from directory you need write access to the directory. If you as root have no write permission to /home, just add it with chmod u+w /home (I assume /home is owned by root). Then you shod be able to do rm /home/curtis -Kastus