ownership and permission

By jeanmichel-1 on 14 Oct 2006 at 19:08 UTC

Is there anybody who could tell me why, on my server (actually i rent space on a server) i got some drupal files which ownership arent mine, i mean the root user. Instead, the owner is a number, something like 454.

Now it is impossible for me to delete or rename or move any files contained in that folder.
i've tried from within drupal, and from the cpanel and from an ftp client. Nothing works

God, how to overcome that?!

thanks

Comments

I'd like to add that me as

jeanmichel-1 commented 14 October 2006 at 19:15

I'd like to add that me as the root user, i'm not the owner NOR part of a group owner for that particular folder. So i'm not permitted to change the permissions on that folder. (the files/images folder)

I used to run into this

VM commented 14 October 2006 at 20:26

I used to run into this problem on powweb.com before i switched to site5.com. powweb eventually installed a file manager to do this. im not familiar with cPanel but there may be a tool in there somewhere. If you cannot delete these using the tools provided by your host, then you would have to ask your host to remove them or point you in the direction of their tool that deletes them.