Re: [cobalt-users] Symptom : File upload <permission denied> Fix?

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Zero Z. Batzell Dean <zero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1) I cannot upload any files to any virtual sites via FTP on the RAQ2.  I
> get a "permission denied" error.

Are you trying to FTP while logged in as "admin"?  If so, you probably recently added
some sites that took your site total over 32.  Since the RaQ2 adds "admin" as a
member of each virtual site and Linux has a cap of 32 groups that a user can belong
to your RaQ2 will choke.  An easy fix is to remove admin from some groups so that
admin is in < 32 groups.

To see which groups admin is part of do:
su -
cat /etc/group | grep admin

Then edit /etc/group using your favorite editor (I like pico):
pico -w /etc/group
ctrl-o to save

> So did I inadvertently change some setting which would provide this symptom
> of not being able to upload files or make changes to files via FTP?

Did you recently edit any FTP configuration files or the permissions on the
directories you are trying to access?  The user's directory usually has permissions
of 771 (rwxrwx--x) so if it's not set with those permissions, telnet in as the user
and do:
chmod 771 $home
or login as admin, su - , then chmod 771 /home/sites/sitex/users/username (useing
correct info for path).

Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}