[Xymon] Hobbit Permission Problem

[Adam Goryachev]

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On 29/03/11 18:29, Henrik Størner wrote:
> Den 29-03-2011 08:17, Adam Goryachev skrev:
>> host:~# mkdir /blah
>> host:~# cd /blah/
>> host:/blah# touch test
>> host:/blah# chgrp adm test
>> host:/blah# chmod 640 test
>> host:/blah# ls -l
>> total 0
>> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2011-03-29 17:15 test
>> host:/blah# su - hobbit
>> hobbit at host:~$ cat /blah/test
>> cat: /blah/test: Permission denied
> 
> Permissions on /blah ? Assuming the "hobbit" user is a member of group
> "adm", the /blah directory must have group "adm" and at least
> group-execute permissions. If group is not "adm", then execute
> permission for "all".

In the above case, the directory was owner root, group root, permissions
655, so it wasn't a directory permission issue.

However, this still doesn't resolve or address the original issue of not
being able to read /var/log/messages where I Showed the permissions of
all the directories and files which *should* have allowed the user to
read the file.

I'm sure there is something really bizarre going on for me, because this
*should* work, and it can't be debian, because I'm sure there are plenty
of other people out there running hobbit with debian who have this
working properly....

Any other pointers? please? I really don't understand what else to look
at...

Thanks,
Adam

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