On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:55:34AM -0800, dave hunted and pecked out: > I've been runing Mandrake for a couple of years and I'm still having > problems with groups. > This is the procedure for making a group and sharing a subdirectory that > I use. Can someone tell me where I'm screwing up? Thanks in advance > > Make a folder: mkdir /home/everyone > make group: groupadd everyone > add users gpasswd -a dave everyone > add users gpasswd -a laura everyone > change the group for the folder chgrp -R everyone /home/everyone > add write for group everyone chmod g+r /home/everyone
Could just be a typo, but r adds read privileges. g+w would add write privileges. > When I'm done with this I still can not make a folder in /home/everyone > logged on as dave. If that wasn't a typo, then it would explain why you can't write a new directory in the /home/everyone folder. > > again thanks for your help > > -- > Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South Eastern Washington > Cheers, Sean -- Theo. Sean Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
