Monday, January 15, 2018

linux - Symlink - Permission Denied

I'm facing an interesting problem with plenty of Permission Denied outputs when using SymLinks



Linux: Slackware 13.1



Directory with Symlink:





root@Tower:/var/lib# ls -lah
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 2012-12-02 20:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 0 2012-12-01 21:06 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ntop ntop 21 2012-12-02 20:09 ntop -> /mnt/user/media/ntop6/


Symlinked Directory:




root@Tower:/mnt/user/media# ls -lah

drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users 1.4K 2012-12-02 19:28 ./
drwxrwx--- 1 nobody users 128 2012-11-18 16:06 ../
drwxrwxrwx 1 ntop ntop 320 2012-12-02 20:22 ntop6/


What I have done:




  • I have used chown -h ntop:ntop on the ntop directory in /var/lib

  • Just to be sure, I have chmod 777 to both directories




Permission denied actions:




root@Tower:/var/lib# sudo -u ntop mkdir /var/lib/ntop/test
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/ntop/test': Permission denied


Any ideas?

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