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

[Frédéric Badel <fred@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > > > 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.
> ------------------
>
> 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?
>

That's what i have noticed, files published by FrontPage are owned by nodoby
and you can't (even as site admin or server admin delete them).

If you can't have a shell and "su" root, open the website with Frontpage and
delete the files via frontpage, then remove the Frontpage extension and
re-publish the files via ftp...

hth

fred