Re: OT Linux problem

problem solved.

Windows authentication through is enabled on this server.

A user can logon with the same account that is used to logon to Windows servers.

There was a dba group in Active Directory.

ls -ldn revealed that rather than group 300, files set to dba by root were being created with the GID from Winbind.

resolution: rename the AD group from dba to ldba (not being used anyway)

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I seem to be experiencing one of 2 things here:
>
> 1) I can't see something right in front of me
> 2) Permissions are not working as expected.
>
> Create a directory as root, change owner to oracle:dba,
> and enable group write permissions.
>
> *as root:*
>
> # mkdir -p exp/pr09
> # chown -R oracle:dba exp
> # chmod -R g+w exp
> # ls -ld exp exp/pr09
> drwxrwxr-x 3 oracle dba 4096 Oct 20 16:04 exp
> drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle dba 4096 Oct 20 16:04 exp/pr09
>
> Try to create a file in new directory - fails
>
> *as jkstill:*
>
> > pwd
> /u01/exp/pr09
>
> > touch x
> touch: cannot touch `x': Permission denied
>
> > rm /tmp/x
> > touch /tmp/x
> > ls -l /tmp/x
> -rw-r----- 1 jkstill dba 0 Oct 20 16:06 /tmp/x
>
> > ls -ld .
> drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle dba 4096 Oct 20 16:04 .
>
> *as root:*
>
> # chmod o+w exp/pr09
>
> as jkstill:
>
> > pwd
> /u01/exp/pr09
>
> > touch x
> > ls -ld x
> -rw-r----- 1 jkstill dba 0 Oct 20 16:08 x
>
> Any clues as to why group permissions are not allowing me to write to this
> directory?
>
> I'm fully prepared to feel stupid...
>
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
>
>

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