Re: [TCLUG:7534] shared firectories

[Kevin Bullock <kbullock@ringworld.org>]

A note about permissions: 'cd' permission for directories is dependent on
+x permission. So be sure you make the shared directory mode 770 (as
opposed to 760). Then make sure you add yourself to the shared group and
logout and back in (in order to reread the group info -- tcsh can't just
'rehash' to reread group info, has to log out and back in). Check your
group membership with the 'groups' command, then check 'cd' priviledges
again. Hope this helps.

On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Joel A. Koepp wrote:

> --- Tim Wilson <wilson@chemsun.chem.umn.edu> wrote:
> > I'd like to create a directory for sharing documents with my 9th grade
> > science colleagues.
<snip> 
> 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.