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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

-----------------------

Any ideas\inputs?


Regards,
Gaurav

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

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MKDIR(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  MKDIR(1)

NAME
mkdir -- make directories SYNOPSIS
mkdir [-p] [-m mode] directory_name ... DESCRIPTION
mkdir creates the directories named as operands, in the order specified, using mode rwxrwxrwx (0777) as modified by the current umask(2). The options are as follows: -m Set the file permission bits of the final created directory to the specified mode. The mode argument can be in any of the formats specified to the chmod(1) utility. If a symbolic mode is specified, the operation characters ``+'' and ``-'' are interpreted rela- tive to an initial mode of ``a=rwx''. -p Create intermediate directories as required. If this option is not specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already exist. Intermediate directories are created with permission bits of rwxrwxrwx (0777) as modified by the current umask, plus write and search permission for the owner. Do not consider it an error if the argument directory already exists. The user must have write permission in the parent directory. EXIT STATUS
mkdir exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred. SEE ALSO
chmod(1), rmdir(1), mkdir(2), umask(2) STANDARDS
The mkdir utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible. BSD
January 25, 1994 BSD
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