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Paul
Asked: 2013-01-13 18:59:54 +0800 CST

Can groups have write access when owners don't?

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I am following a serverfault response (skip to "You can have your cake and eat it too") about website permissions, and I can't get folder permissions 570 to work as expected. I have verified I'm a member of the group and permissions are 570, but I can't even access the directory.

Here is an example of what I'm trying to do:

mkdir newfolder
chown lesseruser newfolder
chgrp greaterusers newfolder
chmod 570 newfolder

I am a member of greaterusers (verified in /etc/group) and I cannot access the directory.

Output ll: dr-xrwx--- 2 lesseruser greaterusers

Will wonders never cease. I just rebooted the server and everything works as expected. Strange, but for sure I'll reboot the next time before posting. Thanks for the help.

linux

1 Answers

  1. Can you provide more info? I'm able to successfully do what I think you explained in the question:

    % groups
saml tmux vboxusers jupiter

% pwd
/home/saml/adir

% ls -la
total 24
dr-xrwx---    2 root saml  4096 Jan 12 22:46 .
drwx------. 214 saml saml 20480 Jan 12 22:48 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 saml saml     0 Jan 12 22:46 afile1
-rw-r--r--    1 saml saml     0 Jan 12 22:46 afile2

    NOTE: I'm on Fedora 14 with a ext4 filesystem.

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