What could have happened to my permissions?

[OsakaWebbie]

Suddenly my development user can't write its own files - what did I mess up? I first noticed the problem in FTP, and used SSH to investigate. Here's a transcript that shows the situation:

[root@vps-1011517-5697 codebase]# grep ^dev /etc/passwd
dev:x:506:500::/var/[URL unfurl="true"]www/:/bin/bash[/URL]
[root@vps-1011517-5697 codebase]# su dev
bash-3.2$ whoami
dev
bash-3.2$ ls -l phpin*
-rw-r--r-- 1 dev kizunadb 65 Mar  6 11:43 phpinfo.php
bash-3.2$ mv phpinfo.php phpinfo-test.php
mv: cannot move `phpinfo.php' to `phpinfo-test.php': Permission denied

Can anyone tell me what might be preventing a user from working on its own files?

 

[feherke]

Hi

I would also check
[ul]
[li]the directory's permission[/li]
[li]the mount point's permission[/li]
[/ul]


Feherke.

http://feherke.github.com/

 

[OsakaWebbie]

Never mind - I found it. I don't know why, but the parent directory (codebase) had had a change of ownership, and I hadn't noticed. Sorry for the stupid question!

 

[OsakaWebbie]

Oh, feherke - I see that you also answered in the meantime, with exactly the same sort of thought! The directory permission was okay, but I hadn't noticed the owner.