Annoying Permishions error

[xconspirisist]

Hey there. I am trying to delete a file on an ftp server, however it appears to be a lot harder than originally thought. I installed "coppermine", it was some sort of image gallery, and its created these images in strange directorys, with even more strange permishions.

they are stored in root/null/null/null/null/*.jpg

I renamed all the parent directorys "null", to test my set of permishions. However, I cannot chmod any of the images, nor can I delete them for that matter. When I try; I recieve the following error.

550 could not change the perms on [filenamehere] bad file descripto...

Anyway. Any help would be appreciated.

[planetsim]

Firstly how did you manage to install it in the root folder are you the owner of the domain if not how insecure is your host 😕

Secondly why did you install it in the root directory 😕

normally you need to have it run as a normal user with limited permissions to start off with so the user nobody or whatever user the hosts uses normally nobody can have access to read the files.

Thirdly try using it in a normal user directory.

Also if the user nobody creates a file it can be deleted by two users nobody and root.

[xconspirisist]

sigh. I installed it in the root directory, not /root.

I will try and chown it to "nodybody". Didnt think of that.