user able to delete directory owned by root Post: 302513614

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Delete Core file in root directory

HP UX 11i Ok my server is about to run out of space, and i would like to know if there is something that i should be doing on a regular basis to maintain the machine like logs that i should clear or dmp file that i should delete... Thanks in Advance

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to delete everything owned bya particular user?

Hi I am an Oracle DBA and I want to delete everything owned byOracle on the AIX server. What command would do that?

3. Solaris

Unable to create or delete a directory in /usr with root user

Hi All, I am trying to uninstall jdk 1.5 from my Solaris 10 64 bit but some how was not successful.so tried to delete the folder of jdk from /usr but its throughing error as: Unable to remove directory jdk: Read-only file system Even I tried to create a dir in /usr but its not allowing me...

4. AIX

AIX 5.x OpenSSH choot and non-root owned

Good day. I was looking at implementing a chroot environment using openssh. I know I can use the sshd_config file and dictate that it is to use chroot for a specific directory for a user/group. However, the issue with this is that it is has to be root owned. To my knowledge, there is no mount...

5. AIX

find command to list all the 777 files and directories owned by root user

Hi I'm logged in to an AIX box now and we need to do an audit on this box. cbssapr01:# pwd / Which command will show all the files and directories owned by root user with permissions as 777 ?

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Root and non-root user not able to delete the file

Hi!! one strange problem occurred with my RHEL 5 box. i'm having logs folder with ownership of non-root user. Created some files with root user under logs folder. here is the scene: -rw-r----- 1 root root 1048227 Feb 28 12:34 SystemOut_13.02.28_12.34.10.log -rw-r----- 1 root root ...

7. Web Development

Apache write permission issues to another user owned directory

Hi I am trying to make a web program which is command line equivalent. i have done the coding in cgi program in perl and html for basic forms to take inputs. when i ran the program from web application i see permission denied messages. after analyzing i found apache is running as wwwrun which...

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Read authorization for everybody on sub-directory owned by root

Hello. On my family laptop, I have a directory named /local. It is owned by root. I want to create a sub-directory named documents ( /local/documents ). I want to exclude exec for every body in that directory I want every authenticated linux user can create a sub directory ( ie :...

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Delete everything owned by a particular user

I want to delete all files and folders owned a user say abcuser in the folder /tmp . Can you please give me the command ? Thanks Matt

10. Solaris

SunOS confusing root directory and user home directory

Hello, I've just started using a Solaris machine with SunOS 5.10. After the machine is turned on, I open a Console window and at the prompt, if I execute a pwd command, it tells me I'm at my home directory (someone configured "myuser" as default user after init). ...

LEARN ABOUT HPUX

set_directory_skulk

set directory to skulk(1m)												set directory to skulk(1m)

NAME

       set directory to skulk - Starts the skulk of a directory immediately

SYNOPSIS

       cdscp set directory directory-name to skulk

ARGUMENTS

       The full name of the directory.

DESCRIPTION

       The  set  directory  to	skulk  command starts the skulk of a directory immediately.  The CDS control program prompt cdscp> does not return
       until the skulk is complete. The amount of time for the skulk to complete is dependent on the location, number, and availability of  repli-
       cas of the directory.

   Privilege Required
       You  must  have	administer,  write, insert, or delete permission to the directory.  The server principal needs administer, read, and write
       permission to the directory.

NOTE

       This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE.

EXAMPLE

       The following command initiates a skulk on the /.:/admin directory: cdscp> set directory /.:/admin to skulk

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: add directory(1m), create directory(1m), delete directory(1m), list directory(1m), remove directory(1m),  set	directory  to  new
       epoch(1m), show directory(1m)

															set directory to skulk(1m)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Delete Core file in root directory

Discussion started by: bbutler3295

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to delete everything owned bya particular user?

Discussion started by: sarangishere

3. Solaris

Unable to create or delete a directory in /usr with root user

Discussion started by: Pshah

4. AIX

AIX 5.x OpenSSH choot and non-root owned

Discussion started by: smurphy_it