Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:27:43 -0800 (PST) From: BSD_Newbie <it_manager@gmx.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership. Message-ID: <21085175.post@talk.nabble.com>
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Hi. I have a quick question about chown and how it works. My setup: * Freebsd 7-RELEASE-p6 (on i386) * /home on separate slice. Here is what I am trying to do: In the folder called /home, I want to store my subversion repository. While working on this, I encountered a unique/inexplicable behavior. This is what I have done so far: a) as root, created a group called repo_admin. b) as root, created an user called svn c) adduser utility created a home directory for user svn under /home (i.e. /home/svn) d) as root, created a directory called my_repos under /home (i.e. /home/my_repos) Now owner and group are root and wheel respectively e) as root, executed the following command. chown svn:repo_admin /home/my_repos f) verified that the file permissions for /home/my_repos is correctly set after the change in ownership. Here is the problem I encountered When I log in as svn, I am placed in the folder /home/svn. As svn, when I try to delete the folder (/home/my_repos), I get the error "Permission denied". Why do I get this error when I (svn) am the owner of that directory? However, I have no problem deleting a directory under /home/svn. Thanks in advance for your help. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unable-to-delete-directory-even-after-change-of-ownership.-tp21085175p21085175.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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