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mkdir: cannot create directory `/builds/somedir/': Permission denied

Hi,


I am trying to run a shell script which contains an mkdir command as part of the execution. The script fails with the following error:
Code:
  mkdir: cannot create directory `/builds/somedir/': Permission denied

The user running the script is 'harry' and belongs to group 'school'. The target directory is owned by another user ‘sally’.

ls -ld /builds/somedir/
Code:
  drwxr-xr-x+   14  sally  bin  1024 May 31 18:01 /builds/somedir/

The above path (/builds/somedir/) is a Samba share.

To make it work, I tried few things but to no avail:
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1.
Code:
setfacl -d -m u:harry:rwx /builds/somedir
     setfacl -d -m g:school:rwx /builds/somedir

2. Added following entry in /etc/sudoers file
Code:
# User privilege specification
  harry ALL=(ALL) ALL

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After making these changes, I tried running the mkdir command manually also but no luck. Smilie

The OS is GNU\Linux.

There is one thing weird that I just noticed: even with root user, I was not able to create directory in the given path. Does it has anything to do with Samba share?

After noticing this behavior, I removed the above entry from sudoers file, and instead added the following but still no luck.
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Code:
harry ALL=(sally) ALL

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Any ideas\inputs?


Regards,
Gaurav

Last edited by pludi; 06-01-2011 at 05:55 AM..
 
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