[SOLVED] I'm not the owner of my owned files

[quisoc]

Some days ago, I had have a problem with my session. Finally, I had to remove my user, and create a new one.
Now, I have a problem. So Apache don't give permission to view any of my sites, I've made a test: I chmod'ed one web directory to 644. Theorically, I have permissions R and W. But if I try a "cd", it returns a "Permission denied"

I've attached a image where it can be seen...

[toad]

Re: I'm not the owner of my owned files

Check all your other entries for directories - they are all executable.

Do chmod +x and you should be able to cd into it.

[barbolani]

Re: I'm not the owner of my owned files

When you create a new user, Linux assigns a numeric ID to the user name. This number is used to record the file permissions, so that when you type on a console ls -l you get meaningful user and group names in the result instead of numbers.

What probably has happened is that the new user has a different ID than the one you had before, and the rights in your folders were assigned to the old user ID. You could try the chmod trick, but perhaps you could try this:

First, go to the parent of the folder that you were allowed to browse with the previous user but no longer are. Do a ls -l You'll get one or more lines like this

drwxr-xr-x 7 1007 1007 912 2008-03-07 10:25 myfolder

The user ID whose rights are associated with the drwx attributes is 1007 (the other number is the group ID) Remember that number because you'll need it later.

Edit as root the file /etc/passwd. Look for a line like

quisoc:1009:1009:Quisoc Name:/home/quisoc:/bin/bash

(instead of quisoc you should look for your actual user name on the machine and the 1009 could be a different number) Then change the number 1009 with the one you remember from the previous step and save the file.

What you've done is change the ID that is associated to the user name to the old number. Log off and on and see if this fixes your problem. Of course you'll not have then whatever rights you gave to the new user on any new files, etc....

Now change the number 1009 for the

[quisoc]

Re: I'm not the owner of my owned files

Check all your other entries for directories - they are all executable.

Do chmod +x and you should be able to cd into it.

Thanks!!

[quisoc]

Re: I'm not the owner of my owned files

Thanks for the answer!
But the solution was than easy as apointed toad: chmod +x.
I can't acces any web on my pc because apache throw me a fordibben 403, and I think that the problem was the same with this directory, and it was more easy

When you create a new user, Linux assigns a numeric ID to the user name. This number is used to record the file permissions, so that when you type on a console ls -l you get meaningful user and group names in the result instead of numbers.

What probably has happened is that the new user has a different ID than the one you had before, and the rights in your folders were assigned to the old user ID. You could try the chmod trick, but perhaps you could try this:

First, go to the parent of the folder that you were allowed to browse with the previous user but no longer are. Do a ls -l You'll get one or more lines like this

drwxr-xr-x 7 1007 1007 912 2008-03-07 10:25 myfolder

The user ID whose rights are associated with the drwx attributes is 1007 (the other number is the group ID) Remember that number because you'll need it later.
Edit as root the file /etc/passwd. Look for a line like

quisoc:1009:1009:Quisoc Name:/home/quisoc:/bin/bash

(instead of quisoc you should look for your actual user name on the machine and the 1009 could be a different number) Then change the number 1009 with the one you remember from the previous step and save the file.

What you've done is change the ID that is associated to the user name to the old number. Log off and on and see if this fixes your problem. Of course you'll not have then whatever rights you gave to the new user on any new files, etc....

Now change the number 1009 for the

[toad]

Re: I'm not the owner of my owned files

Glad it worked.

Could you mark the thread as solved, please? See my signature for details.

Thanks.