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**tch3** · April 15th, 2005, 10:25 AM

I've seen a couple of differnent installations of some packages from Fantastico which will create files and directories owned by the nobody account.

This is one example, I installed drupal and the $DRUPAL/files/pictures directory is owned by nobody and permissions are set to 700. This creates a problem; I uninstalled drupal and it left behind those directories and I am unable to delete them.

I have written support to assist me in getting rid of the no longer needed files/directories. However, I was curious is that ownership/permissions set absolutely necessary? Perhaps at the install, the directory ownership should be set to the account holder and make those permissions 1777 instead? Or maybe there should be a tool somewhere we can run to reset those permissions so we can remove the files as needed.

Clair

April 15th, 2005, 10:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
tch3 Destroyer of Evil Robots Excelling Contributor Joined in Oct 2003 Lives in Atlanta, GA 760 posts Gave thanks: 17 Thanked 9 times	files and directories owned by the nobody account I've seen a couple of differnent installations of some packages from Fantastico which will create files and directories owned by the nobody account. This is one example, I installed drupal and the $DRUPAL/files/pictures directory is owned by nobody and permissions are set to 700. This creates a problem; I uninstalled drupal and it left behind those directories and I am unable to delete them. I have written support to assist me in getting rid of the no longer needed files/directories. However, I was curious is that ownership/permissions set absolutely necessary? Perhaps at the install, the directory ownership should be set to the account holder and make those permissions 1777 instead? Or maybe there should be a tool somewhere we can run to reset those permissions so we can remove the files as needed. Clair