[ale] Group permissions

Glenn C. Lasher Jr. glasher at nycap.rr.com
Mon Feb 5 15:17:15 EST 2001



Thanks Rob, that hit it right on the head.  The missing element was to set
the perms on the dir not to 775, but to 2775.  

Thanks again.

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Robert Hoffman wrote:

> This will walk you through setting up the directory properly:
> 
> http://www.frankenlinux.com/guides/shareddir.html
> 
> -Rob Hoffman
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Glenn C. Lasher Jr." <glasher at nycap.rr.com>
> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:45:35 -0500 (EST)
> 
> >
> >Redhat 6.2 system....
> >
> >This is the ls -l for /aux1:
> >
> >total 28
> >drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        16384 Jan 19 12:02 lost+found
> >drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Feb  1 16:13 pgsql
> >drwxrwxr-x    2 cjritter radio        4096 Feb  5 12:35 radio
> >drwxrwxrwx    3 root     root         4096 Jan 25 10:11 sql
> >
> >The directory radio is owned by user cjritter, and group radio.  The group
> >radio contains users cjritter, glasher, nova.  I set up, and see, rwx
> >privs for the owner, and rwx privs for the group.  nova is also in group
> >nova, glasher in group glasher, and cjritter in groups cjritter and
> >glasher.  I can do this:
> >
> >[cjritter at hermes radio]$ touch this
> >
> >...but I can't do this:
> >
> >[glasher at hermes radio]$ touch this
> >touch: this: Permission denied
> >
> >Why?
> >
> >My intention is to set up a group readable/writable directory
> >(semi-public) for collaborative work.
> >
> >Any advice?
> >
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> >glasher at nycap.rr.com
> >After 163 days, Verizon still couln't deliver Telocity DSL.
> >
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