Dear Managers,
Some of my users are complaining that they cannot delete their
own files. For example, user "courier" complains that he cannot
delete the file /usr/users/courier/bpic.zip. rm gives him the following
message:
rm: bpic.zip : Permission denied
chmod also fails. The superuser (either on the NFS server or
the NFS client) CAN delete the files.
Here is all the (hopefully relevant) data I can gather:
$ ls -algd /usr/users/courier
drwx------ 6 courier users 8192 Feb 13 11:41 /usr/users/courier
$ ls -alg /usr/users/courier/bpic.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 courier users 1025013 Feb 6 23:20
/usr/users/courier/bpic.zip
$ getacl /usr/users/courier/bpic.zip
#
# file: /usr/users/courier/bpic.zip
# owner: courier
# group: users
#
user::rw-
group::r--
other::r--
/usr/users is NFS-mounted read-write (DON'T tell me this is
bad security practice; I know but because this is a college I really
do have to make user files available at any host). The problem only
occurs with some files, but I can't see any obvious pattern. No stale
file handles are appearing that I can see.
The user in question has moderate UNIX experience, so I don't
think he is doing anything really crazy.
Any suggestions?
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
PGP public key available at:
http://garfield.wsc.mass.edu/dcis/griffith.html
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Received on Thu Feb 13 1997 - 19:08:18 NZDT