Hi all,
This is a repost of an issue as I didn't see any responses and I need to solve it.

All my staff are in two groups, popusers is their primary group and staff is the
secondary group.

Below is part of a directory listing, I would have thought that anybody in the
'staff' group would have full control. However they can generally negotiate through
the directories until they hit one with files in and then they get 'permission
denied'

When they are on the local network they access the files with no problems from
Windows workstaions using SAMBA.

I have subsequently set the permissions to 776 and the owners to nobody.staff for
the whole directory. This solves the access problem...but....

They are accessing the directory through a system called AUC which is a 'curriculum
content management system, with email and discussion boards' etc and is in fact a
large cgi script. Is it feasible that the cgi is not recognising them as being
members of the staff group? If so any ideas on how I would 'fix' it?

drwxrwxrwx   20 root     staff        4096 Oct 17 12:13 .
drwxrwxrwx    4 root     root         4096 Oct 10 11:10 ..
drwxrwx---    2 root     staff        4096 Oct 15 09:55 Admin
drwxrwx---    2 nobody   staff        4096 Oct 17 12:23 BOARD
drwxrwx---    5 root     staff        4096 Aug 18 11:45 BookIt
drwxrwx---    2 root     staff        4096 Sep 11 07:08 BOS
drwxrwx---    6 root     staff        4096 Oct 10 11:29 CoCurricular
drwxrwx---   10 root     staff        4096 Oct 10 11:23 Curriculum_Coordinator
drwxrwxrwx    4 root     staff        4096 Oct 10 11:15 Director_of_Mission
drwxrwx---    2 root     staff        4096 Oct 16 11:50 Excursions
drwxrwxrwx   17 root     staff        4096 Oct 13 21:14 LearningAreas
drwxrwx---   17 root     staff        4096 Aug 27 13:37 Literacy
drwxrwx---    4 root     staff        4096 Oct 15 16:42 MAGAZINE 2003
drwxrwx---    2 root     staff        4096 Oct 16 07:57 NEWSLETTER ITEMS
drwxrwx---    9 root     staff        4096 Aug  4 14:00 Parramatters
drwxrwxrwx    8 root     staff        4096 Oct 15 14:49 PastoralCare
drwxrwx---    3 root     staff        4096 Oct 10 11:22 Peer_support
drwxrwx---    2 root     staff        4096 Sep 30 14:37 ProfDev
drwxrwx---    2 nobody   staff        4096 Oct 15 12:39 Technology Bulletin
drwxrwxrwx    3 root     staff        4096 Oct 10 11:19 TechSupport
-rwxrwx---    1 nobody   staff       26624 Oct 15 17:33 WORKFLOW STEPS.doc
-rwxrwx---    1 nobody   staff       19968 Oct 15 16:30 Year 11 Retreat.doc

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IT Manager
OLMC Parramatta
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