Re: [cobalt-users] admin inaccessablity

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, David Lucas wrote:
> I have a Raq4r.
> I have about 10 sites on it.
> Site 6 has directories owned by root, nobody, admin, and the siteadmin
> As admin, I can not upload to directories created by the siteadmin.
> 
> Why?  I did not say change files the siteadmin put there.  I only wanted to 
> upload a sample file for them and it refused me permission.
> 
> I thought as the admin I could do most anything.  After all, I logged in as 
> admin in the GUI to create the site.
> 
> The web directory is now owned by nobody.
> All the site directories are owned by nobody.
> All the symbolic links to directories are owned by root.
> 

What is the group?
The group is usually the site number (sitenn)
May have some affect.
Which leads me to another question, /etc/passwd uses numbers for owner:group
How does a sitenn get considered as a number?
I also notice that my rsync backups have numbers for owner:group


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