[plug] Unix file permission problem (I think)

[Bernd Felsche]

Steve Boak <sboak at westnet.com.au> writes:

>I have a funny feeling that I will regret asking this, as it will become 
>obvious to me as soon as I have pressed the send button...

>I am trying to create a directory 'Linux' on a basically empty partition 
>mounted on '/var/share/download', logged in as normal user 'steve'.

>Here's the error message:

>steve at min:/var/share/download$ mkdir Linux
>mkdir: cannot create directory `Linux': Permission denied

>I've checked the directory permissions:
>steve at min:/var/share/download$ ls -ld /var/share/download
>drwxrwxr-x  3 root share 4096 Jul  7 21:56 /var/share/download

Permissions on /var/share (and /var) have "execute" for the "share"
group?

>I'm in the right group:

>steve at min:/var/share/download$ groups steve
>steve : steve audio dip share

You're not "steve"? :-)

Did you su to that account?

>There is plenty of room:

>steve at min:/var/share/download$ df /var/share/download
>Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda8             20161172     32828  19104204   1% /var/share/download

>Mount seems OK:

>steve at min:/var/share/download$ mount
>[...]
>/dev/hda8 on /var/share/download type ext3 (rw)

>I'm running debian stable (sarge), with a custom 2.6 kernel:
>steve at min:/var/share/download$ uname -a
>Linux min 2.6.12.2 #2 Tue Jul 5 11:53:33 WST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

>What have I missed?

The directory already exists?

>P.S. if I chmod o+w the parent directory, (as root of course), I
>can create the new 'Linux' directory.
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