[Cooker] Did the security model change?

Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:44:21 -0700 


Since upgrading to 8.1, I find group permissions are not working
they way they did.

For example, I have /usr/local/src:

  drwxrwxr-x  117 root     users        4096 Oct 25 09:51 /usr/local/src

and my user account listed in /etc/group

  users:x:100:garym,kmip

yet ...

    [garym@maya src]$ whoami
    garym
    [garym@maya src]$ mkdir xml
    mkdir: cannot create directory `xml': Permission denied

    [garym@maya src]$ newgrp users
    [garym@maya src]$ mkdir xml

This is new behaviour.  Previously, being listed in the group was
sufficient to have group permissions; I never needed to explicitly
change group to use group-writeable directories.

-- 
Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com
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