[ale] Group permissions

Robert Hoffman rob at frankenlinux.com
Mon Feb 5 13:10:10 EST 2001


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>
To: ale at ale.org
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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