Re: unlink() & rmdir() ... Problems.

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 02:30, John Nichel wrote: > > This is what I got with ls -al > > > > rahul:/Library/WebServer/Documents/informed-sources.com/imsafm bob$ ls > > -al total 16 > > drwxrwxrwx 5 nobody nobody 170 24 Aug 13:55 . > > drwxrwxrwx 102 bob unknown 3468 24 Aug 11:23 .. > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 bob unknown 6148 24 Aug 13:57 .DS_Store > > drwxr-xr-x 3 www www 102 24 Aug 11:05 bobkasper > > > > drwxr-xr-x 3 www www 102 24 Aug 11:09 rjohari > > > > Now you see the last 2 folders... "bobkasper" and "rjohari". These are > > 2 > > users created by the admin. If I delete a user, their corresponding > > folder should be deleted as well, which is what I am trying to achieve. > > But if, let's say, I delete the user "rjohari"... The folder still > > remains. > > > > Thanks for helping... > > If Apache is running as nobody/nobody, it does not have permission to > delete these directories. The only users who can delete these > directories are the respective users, and root. You need to have write > permission to delete... > > drwxr-xr-x 3 www www 102 24 Aug 11:09 rjohari > > In the above, the 'd' means directory, the next three letter are the > user's permissions (full, read/write/execute), next three characters > (r-x) are the group's permissions (read/execute), and the last three are > other's (world) permission (read/execute). The two 'www' are the owner > (user) and group. For the directory rjohari, only root and the user www > can delete and/or write to this directory. Actually 'nobody' *can* delete both bobkasper and rjohari (but not .DS_Store). -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Thrashing is just virtual crashing. */