Hello, You need to have the parent directories o+rx for 'others' to be able to read into the directories. So /home/perry and /home/perry/trunk and /home/perry/trunk/so needs to be o+rwx to be writeable by john. Better yet, add john to perry's group and allow perry's group write permissions on the ~/trunk/so directory.
HTH! Lawrence johnrob y bantang wrote: > Hello, > > it must be the permission of the directory /home/perry/trunk if you > are accessing the copied file as user john. > > >> On Dec 5, 2007 12:49 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi: >>> >>> Suppose I logged in as user john, and I tried copying >>> a.txt from /home/john/devel into /home/perry/trunk/so >>> (owned by perry); but everytime I get a "Permission denied" >>> error. >>> >>> I tried logging in in as perry and execute the >>> following commands to allow anybody to copy into "so" >>> subdirectory : >>> cd trunk >>> chmod 777 so >>> >>> After I executing this command, john is still unable to >>> copy a.txt from /home/john/devel into /home/perry/trunk/so >>> >>> I tried another step, I logged in as john and execute: >>> ln -s /home/perry/trunk/so my_so >>> cp a.txt my_so >>> >>> I still get a permission denied. I tried changing the >>> permissions /home/perry and /home/perry/trunk into >>> rwx--x--x, but it still doesn't work. >>> >>> I wonder why it doesn't work. If I'm not mistaken >>> permission mode 777 allows anybody to read/write/execute, >>> Plus the fact the change the permission mode of /home/perry >>> and /home/perry/trunk into rwx--x--x(According to my man >>> pages, x is allowed access if it is a directory); so based >>> on my understanding, anybody can access /home/perry and >>> /home/perry/trunk >>> > > the permission should be rwxrwxrwx for the directory so that all > others can read and write into the directory not just access and see > what is inside (--x). > > > > hope this helps. > _________________________________________________ > 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 > > _________________________________________________ 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
