Jon is correct that the home folder is accessed by only the user (700). So the 
subsequent folders are not visible to others.
Thanks.

 
Regards,
Mahmood 


On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 3:16 AM, Brandon Vincent <[email protected]> 
wrote:
 


On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 03:04 -0700, Mahmood N wrote:

> Hi
> I changed the primary group of my user name to another on in order to
> access some folders of that user. However I can not access them. Why?
> 
> 
> [root@N100 mahmood]# groups mahmood
> mahmood : devs mahmood
> [root@N100 mahmood]# groups devs
> plotfi : devs
> 
> 
> [mahmood@N100 ~]$ ls /home/devs/tools
> ls: cannot access /home/devs/tools: Permission denied
> 
> 
>  
> Regards,
> Mahmood

Mahmood,

Can you try logging out and logging back in?

Brandon Vincent

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