On 4/27/06, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 4/26/06, qtcamote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Aloha PLUGgers! > > > > > > > drwxr-x--- 2 testuser technical 4096 Apr 26 10:44 stickyfolder > > > > > > > The above shows my current permission for my folder. My current trouble is > testuser1 can create and delete files but when I try to login to another > user, let's say testuser2, testuser2 cannot open the directory. > > > change the ownership of the file/directory via the chown command: > > # chown technical.technical /path/of/file > > > > > > > In my /etc/group file > > > > > > > technical:x:505:root,testuser1,testuser2 > > > > > > > I have the above line which (I think) says that testuser1 and testuser2 > belongs to the technical group. How do I set the permissions of the folder > so that other members of the group should be able to read the file? > > > check the file permission via $ ls -l and see if it allows other users in > the group to read the file, if not then do this: > > # chmod 750 /path/to/file >
you may also want to check your umask, and set setgid bit for the directory. # umask 0127 <--- rw for owner, read-only for group, no access to other # chmod g+s stickyfolder created file/folder inside stickyfolder will have readobnly access for technical, and no access to other users. ---edel _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
