[K12OSN] advice needed: re linux file permissions

[john]

I didn't do that, I'll try it out. Thanks Petre.

John

On 1/3/07, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
>
> Did you have user B logout and log back in?  Group membership is
> established only at login.
>
> Petre
>
> john wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to give a user write permission on a directory and the files
> > and sub-directory's located therein. The directory and its contents are
> > owned by user A, and I want user B to have rwx permissions on that
> > directory as well. So I tried adding user B to /etc/groups using vigr
> > and doing the following. The directory is 775 but user B still can't do
> > touch in the directory. When I use the 'groups' command as that user, I
> > don't see that 'B' is part of the group 'A'. Here's what the relevant
> > part of my /etc/groups file looks like.
> > A:x:508,B
> >
> > Thanks for any advice you can give me!
> >
> > John
> >
> >
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