Problems changing permissions
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Oct 13 15:46:46 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:27 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> >>>Heres the output of the directory listing
> >>>
> >>> [root at srvweb-02 vpopmail]# cd bin
> >>>[root at srvweb-02 bin]# ls -al
> >>>total 1332
> >>>drwxrwxrwx 2 4294967294 4294967294 4096 Oct 11 08:48 .
> >>>drwx------ 8 4294967294 4294967294 4096 Oct 11 08:48 ..
> >>>-rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 49548 Oct 11 08:48 clearopensmtp
> >>>-rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 53692 Oct 11 08:48
> >
> > dotqmail2valias
> >
> >>>-rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48
> >
> > vaddaliasdomain
> >
> >>>-rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 52716 Oct 11 08:48 vadddomain
> >
> > ----
> > that looks suspiciously like a foreign filesystem (nfs) or a foreign
> > owner (perhaps like Windows/NIS owner) - either way, this presents an
> > issue that isn't working like you think it should be.
> > ----
> >
> > [Timothy A. Holmes]
> >
> > Im not sure on that -- I was logged in as root on an SSH session -- via
> > putty when I installed it
>
> LOL!
>
> Ok, now we find out!
>
> You have a real problem doing this sort of thing over that type
> of connection, unless you have taken special pains when setting
> up the machines. The user IDs on the two machines likely do not
> match.
----
which of course makes a strong case for LDAP which is what I would do
rather than a yp/nis implementation
Craig
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