Re: [TCLUG:7534] shared firectories

[Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

Since you are giving the directory absolutely no wworld priviliges (not even
read), then you're apparently not in the group.  To figure out which groups
you're in, type:

groups

It will give you a list of your groups.  Also, you may not have logged out
and logged back in since you added yourself to the group.  Or maybe you haven't
rehashed your shell.  You may want to try that.

Gabe

> 
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Joel A. Koepp wrote:
> 
> > I think a fast way to do it would be with groups. Add a line to /etc/group,
> > giving a name, a group number, and then add tim, linus, and alan as members.
> > Pretend for a moment that you called the group 'share'. Create your directory
> > somewhere, let's say /foo/bar. Then do 'chown root.share /foo/bar' giving group
> > ownership to 'share'. Finally, 'chmod g+rw /foo/bar' should allow all members
> > of group 'share' to have read/write access to /foo/bar. Change the permissions
> > according to what you want, though. Hope this gets you started. 
> 
> Thanks Joel. It almost works.
> 
> I created the group, made a directory for the group in /home, added the
> users to the group, did chown root.groupname /home/groupname, and chmod
> 760 /home/groupname. Unfortunately, I can't cd to that directory from my
> personal directory. I get:
> 
> [wilson@galileo wilson]$ cd /home/atlas
> bash: cd: /home/atlas: Permission denied
> 
> BTW, chmod 770 /home/groupname doesn't help.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> -Tim
> 
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Gabe Turner <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>       
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