One of our clients suddenly can't overwrite or delete any files that are uploaded in his account.

I logged in via FTP as him, and I can't overwrite, delete, or change permissions on anything.

Anyone have an answer / remedy?

The file manager in cPanel doesn't appear to be changing file permissions either.

His folders appear to be set at 550.

How would I go about setting his File Permissions to something like 770 in root, doesn't matter if it's console or anything.

Try this

Run
cd /home
chown -R user.user user [User = username of user]
then cd user
chmod 755 public_html
:) That should fix it up.

File uploaded by PHP, CGI scripts (without suexec) is owned by user/group nobody, you can't delete or overwrite it unless it's world-writable.

>How would I go about setting his File Permissions to something like 770 in root

chmod 770 filename

or if you want to chmod 770 all files use:

chmod 770 *

However chmod'ing 770 doesn't help if his files are till owned by user/group nobody. You can change the owner of a file by using:

chown userID.groupID filename (use * instead of filename for all files)

Yep, It Worked!
Now, any idea why it would revert to 550?

AFAIK noone touched permission settings...

Oh, and he uploaded via PHP.
It just recently turned to 550.

>Now, any idea why it would revert to 550?

Alll files or only newly uploaded files?

:) Hi MStar,

This might help with your cPanel File manager problem:

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17332&highlight=change+permissions