RE: [cobalt-users] Raq4 user can't delete files they own via ftp

["Jolley, Carl" <Carl.Jolley@xxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Frédéric Badel
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 9/6/02 8:20 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Raq4 user can't delete files they own via ftp

> > > > I even tried to delete via ftp after changing the ownership
> > from nobody
> > > > to that username.  No luck.
> > > > Had to su from admin to root.  Any idea what could be wrong??
> > > >
> > > >Is the user id of the ftp login also the owner of the files?
> > >
> > > YES.
> > >
> > >How about the group?
> > >Maybe post the results of ls -l for the files
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 nobody   site113      1024 Sep  5 11:26 _vti_cnf
> > -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   site113     76928 Sep  5 11:22 chapter1.htm
> > -rw-r--r--   1 nobody   site113     70985 Sep  5 11:25 chapter10.htm

<snip>

> >
> I smell immutible in here somewhere!
> -----------
>
> What I am wondering is how the OP logged into FTP
> with the nobody account. Just exactly what password did
> he use for the nobody account? These files can only
> be removed by nobody and root so long as they are owned
> by nobody.

imho he didn't use ftp to publish these pages... he did with frontpage,
that's why thy're owned by nobody.
the only only way to avoid this kind of problem is to use ftp or (read
XOR)
frontpage to publish the site, never mix them up...
if you don't want to use frontpage anymore, login as root delete these
files
and re-publish via ftp.
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How they are published is not the issue. The OP stated
that he had used FTP to try to remove the files and that
didn't work. That was the subject of his message. Trying
to use FTP to delete files owned by nobody with the
protections set as shown is not going to work unless he
has the ability to log on to FTP as root. If he can't
remove the files as root then he has immuttable files and
has to reset that attribute before the files can be removed.
Is it your position that files published by FrontPage have
the owner set to nobody?