Robert, thanks for the additional info. I think some flavors of Unix automatically create a group named the same as the user and set it as the user's primary group. I'm not sure why, but that might be why you have a bunch of groups named after users.
Can you try something for me? Change the owning group of that folder to the PRIMARY group for your foo user (use the GID in the /etc/passwd file), OR change the foo user's primary group to "beta". According to Sun's docs, the group only applies for users who have that group as their primary group. "foo" user has "beta" group as a secondary group, but I think it is being ignored for file permissions since "foo" users primary group is "foo" which doesn't have any ownership to that folder. http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/801-6628/6i108op89?l=zh_tw&a=view "Setting Up Groups" Section "Some applications, like the file system, look only at the user's primary group. For example, ownership of files accounting data reflect the primary group, not any secondary groups." ~Brad -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Determining CF8's UNIX Account From: Robert Nurse <[email protected]> Date: Thu, September 03, 2009 8:09 am To: cf-talk <[email protected]> Ok, we start CF manually with the command: ./jrun -nohup -start -childVM foo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:325992 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
