What's the output of "cat /etc/group"? John Hebert
--- "John B. Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all. I have what I hope is a simple question > about > groups. I am currently running RedHat 7.2. > > I am working on some PHP-Nuke stuff work, no big > deal. However, I have it > installed to /var/www/html. It is a hassle to have > to do everything in > /var/www/html as root, so I created a group called > 'web' using the RH > User/Group administration tool. I added my personal > account, jcole, to the > 'web' group. Then I did 'chgrp -R web html' and > 'chmod -R 2775 html' from > /var/www. So far so good, right? > > So I open a terminal window and pop over to > /var/www/html and try something > like 'cat index.php > foo' to see if I can now edit > things in the web tree as > jcole. Uh oh - 'bash: foo: permission denied'. > > The entry for the web group in /etc/group is: > > web:x:501:jcole > > Does anyone out there have any idea as to what I am > doing incorrectly? > > Thanks. > > John. > > -- > John B. Cole > PT.NET Webmaster, College of Education > Animal Breeding and Genetics Section, Department of > Animal Science > Louisiana State University > Baton Rouge, LA 70803 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com
