1102689 - Can't delete ~cpearce/public_html/mse-eme/

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: Infrastructure: Other, task)

Description

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

I cannot delete the following dir in my p.m.o account:

~cpearce/public_html/mse-eme/

Here's what I get:

[[e-mail]3 public_html]$ rm -rf mse-eme/
rm: cannot remove `mse-eme/index.html': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `mse-eme/media': Permission denied
[[e-mail]3 public_html]$
[[e-mail]3 public_html]$ ls -l mse-eme/
ls: cannot access mse-eme/index.html: Permission denied
ls: cannot access mse-eme/media: Permission denied
total 0
-????????? ? ? ? ?            ? index.html
d????????? ? ? ? ?            ? media
[[e-mail]3 public_html]$ id
uid=1108(cpearce) gid=1108(cpearce) groups=1108(cpearce),100(users)

Comment 1

[:Atoll]

(For IT, I'd like this investigated further before we simply delete it - ls -l shows nothing unusual as root.)

Comment 2

[Greg Cox [:gcox]]

[[e-mail]3 ~]# ls -ld ~cpearce/public_html/mse-eme
drw-r--r-- 3 cpearce apache 4096 Oct 22 18:58 /home/cpearce/public_html/mse-eme

It's a -x directory, so it's not traversable by the owner, leading to shenanigans.  Testing (apologies for spoofing you):

[[e-mail]3 public_html]$ ls -la mse-eme/
ls: cannot access mse-eme/.: Permission denied
ls: cannot access mse-eme/index.html: Permission denied
ls: cannot access mse-eme/media: Permission denied
ls: cannot access mse-eme/..: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ?            ? .
d????????? ? ? ? ?            ? ..
-????????? ? ? ? ?            ? index.html
d????????? ? ? ? ?            ? media
[[e-mail]3 public_html]$ chmod 755 mse-eme
[[e-mail]3 public_html]$ ls -la mse-eme/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  3 cpearce apache  4096 Oct 22 18:58 .
drwxr-s--- 24 cpearce apache  4096 Jan  4 15:59 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 cpearce apache 11889 Oct 19 19:45 index.html
drwxr-s---  2 cpearce apache  4096 Oct 22 18:59 media
[[e-mail]3 public_html]$ chmod 644 mse-eme

I put it back to 644 for status-quo-ante, but that should let you choose where to go from here.

Comment 3

[:Atoll]

Thanks, Greg.

Chris, I've repaired the directory permissions so that you're able to delete this directory now:

# chmod ugo+X mse-eme; chmod ug+X mse-eme/media

And that lets us close this out. Sorry it took so long!