cannot chmod (change owner of folder) ?

[Tenaka]

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I just noticed a typo in the post title: it should say: chown instead of chmod

I did a ls -al inside my /var/www and this is part of the result:

drwxr-xr-x 9 web12_postmaster web12 4096 2005-10-17 02:33 web12
drwxr-xr-x 9 spamd web14 4096 2005-10-23 02:27 web14
drwxr-xr-x 10 web6_postmaster web6 4096 2005-10-20 00:53 web6
drwxr-xr-x 12 web7_test web7 4096 2005-10-22 11:05 web7


I tried a chown -R web14_postmaster:web14 web14/ which is the default settign as it should be. The comand is executed but there is no change. Still the same settings like above. I am logged in as a user and then did a sudo su to get root powers...

can anyone suggest how to get rid of this problem?

btw. spamd is a user I made for a local version of spamassassin running for another task, but I am sure I never gave that user rights to this folder...

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I found a log entry that seems connected to this:

Oct 23 10:12:23 h5810 postfix/local[3912]: warning: maildir access problem for UID/GID=10026/10014: create /var/www/web14/user/web14_a1/Maildir/tmp/1130055143.P3912.hxxxx.serverkompetenz.net: Permission denied


very strange - one of the accounts below the falsely spamd-owned folder can access mail (he is the admin of the site) but another user here you can see web14_a1 cannot...
Any ideas? I'd like to solve this in an elegant matter not just by deleting the domain from ispconfig and from cache and then recreating...

[falko]

Can you have a look at /etc/passwd and check if web14_postmaster and spamd have the same user id? If so, you should change spamd's user id to a value that's not in use and not in the range of ids used by ISPConfig (by default, user ids in ISPConfig start at 10000).

[Tenaka]

that did the magic trick - thx a lot