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kenalker
Feb 15, 2016Aspirant
ReadyNAS 314 home directory owner and group
I am running a ReadyNAS 314 with firmware 6.4.2 (upgraded today). I have been having some problems lately and I believe it may be due to the ownership of my home directory. My home directory is own...
- Feb 15, 2016
I did a factory reset recently, and I haven't touched the permissions with ssh. The only user is admin. The system has two volumes (data and data2)
root@RN102:~# cd // root@RN102://# ls -al total 148 drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Feb 8 09:27 . drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Feb 8 09:27 .. drwxrwxrwx 1 admin admin 70 Feb 4 07:31 apps drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 07:14 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 2012 boot drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 236 Feb 4 07:28 data drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54 Feb 4 07:29 data2 drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 13640 Feb 4 07:31 dev drwxr-xr-x 73 root root 4096 Feb 4 07:32 etc drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 4 07:15 frontview -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 4 07:32 ftp_ban.tbl drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 10 Feb 4 07:28 home drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Feb 4 07:14 lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 4 07:30 localtime -> /etc/localtime drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Feb 4 07:14 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Feb 4 07:31 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 2012 mnt drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Feb 4 07:14 opt dr-xr-xr-x 169 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 proc -rw------- 1 root root 1024 Feb 4 07:15 .rnd drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Feb 4 07:15 root drwxrwxr-x 23 root admin 820 Feb 14 20:33 run drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 07:14 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 2012 selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 17 2012 srv dr-xr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Feb 4 07:31 sys drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 4096 Feb 14 20:17 tmp drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Feb 4 07:15 usr drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Feb 4 07:15 var
root@RN102:// cd home root@RN102://home# ls -al
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 10 Feb 4 07:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Feb 8 09:27 ..
drwx------ 1 admin admin 0 Feb 4 07:36 admin
root@RN102://home#.
mdgm-ntgr
Feb 15, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
The "ken" home directory itself should be owned by ken:users, but /home should be owned by admin:admin
kenalker
Feb 15, 2016Aspirant
Thank you. It appears that permissions and ownership for the home/admin folder are incorrect as well. I'm going to reset them to what StephenB shows in his.
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