[ale] SOS: permissions issue, maybe OpenLDAP/pam?

[Brian W. Neu]

I don't know what was causing the issue, but rerunning a chown -R
user:group to the exact same user/group as before (yes, uid&gid) fixed
the problem.  weird. 

Brian W. Neu wrote:
> I've installed a new F11 server, w/OpenLDAP.  Users access an lvm/ext4
> volume via netatalk & samba.  Selinux is permissive.
>
> Some users were getting "sharing violation" or "disk full" for afp and
> smb respectively on some existing files, though 2.2TB are free and new
> files were fine.
>
> I found that when opening a shell as these users (#su - username), they
> indeed could NOT edit the files, at least with vim.  What they could do
> was "append" to the files via "# echo 1 >>badfile.html ".  Then after
> appending, vim would write to that file just fine and netatalk & samba
> were now happy with that file too.
>
> I've run lsattr, I've run setfacl to list permissions, I've updated the
> kernel, I've rebooted, I've run fsck, I've checked "mount" for acl, I've
> checked syslog . . . I'm stumped.
>
> I thought that if you couldn't write, you couldn't append either?  Any
> ideas?
>
>
>
> ~]# rpm -q openldap-servers kernel pam
> openldap-servers-2.4.17-2.fc11.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64
> pam-1.0.91-6.fc11.x86_64
>
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