711 on /home/perry/trunk is sufficient for john to write to /home/perry/trunk/so which is 777.
On Dec 5, 2007 4:07 PM, johnrob y bantang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
