Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:53:12PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 04:42 PM 3/8/2004, Dan Nelson wrote: What do you get if you run the id command? Try logging out and back in. Group memberships are checked at login time, so if you were added to the www group recently, your current shell may

Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:10:25PM +, Matthew Seaman typed: Yes, quite. Your login credentials are established when you login to the system and only then -- that's when the limits of what you're authorized to do are set, which includes amongst other things which groups you're a member

Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:29:07PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:10:25PM +, Matthew Seaman typed: Yes, quite. Your login credentials are established when you login to the system and only then -- that's when the limits of what you're authorized to do are

Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:44:05PM +, Matthew Seaman typed: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:29:07PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:10:25PM +, Matthew Seaman typed: Yes, quite. Your login credentials are established when you login to the system and only

Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Marty Landman
At 10:25 AM 3/9/2004, Ruben de Groot wrote: Well, SysV-ism or not, it's back in FreeBSD 5.x, and it works as I described. I should have checked one of my older systems too though. # whereis newgrp Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/X11R6/man! newgrp: swamisalami# uname -r 4.8-RELEASE swamisalami#

Re: Solved: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-08 14:24]: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:27:49PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: Hi, I just changed the permission and ownership of some files and was denied cat /etc/passwd akruijff:*:1001:0:Alex de Kruijff:/home/akruijff:/bin/csh Sorry

Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-09 14:34]: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:53:12PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 04:42 PM 3/8/2004, Dan Nelson wrote: What do you get if you run the id command? Try logging out and back in. Group memberships are checked at login time, so if you

Re: Solved: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-09 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:13:43PM -0800, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-08 14:24]: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:27:49PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: Hi, I just changed the permission and ownership of some files and was denied cat /etc/passwd

Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Hi, I just changed the permission and ownership of some files and was denied writting to this file even though I'm in the group and the group has write permissions. Did I forgot something or is this strange? I thougth I should be able to write as user akruijff ls -loa drwxrwxr-x 2 www

Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-08 Thread Julien Gabel
I just changed the permission and ownership of some files and was denied writting to this file even though I'm in the group and the group has write permissions. Did I forgot something or is this strange? I thougth I should be able to write as user akruijff ls -loa drwxrwxr-x 2 www

Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 08), Alex de Kruijff said: I just changed the permission and ownership of some files and was denied writting to this file even though I'm in the group and the group has write permissions. Did I forgot something or is this strange? I thougth I should be able to write as

Solved: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:27:49PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: Hi, I just changed the permission and ownership of some files and was denied writting to this file even though I'm in the group and the group has write permissions. Did I forgot something or is this strange? I thougth I should

Re: Why can't I write this file?

2004-03-08 Thread Marty Landman
At 04:42 PM 3/8/2004, Dan Nelson wrote: What do you get if you run the id command? Try logging out and back in. Group memberships are checked at login time, so if you were added to the www group recently, your current shell may not know about it. Would rehash fix that or do you have to log back