Re: groups

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I must have a fundamental misunderstanding of users, groups, owners,
>and permissions.  I want my user, Jack, to be able to create files in
>the /home/httpd/html directory.  That directory is owned by the user
>root and group root.  So, I created a group called webusers, put Jack
>in it, changed the group on the /home/httpd directory and all its
>subdirectories to webusers and changed the permissions to rwxrwxr-x
>for the same directories.  Still can't create a file in
>/home/httpd/html while logged in as Jack.  What don't I understand
>here?

What does the "ls -la" entry look like for the directory?

Try doing a "chmod g+s ." while in the directory, then creating a file.  Your
understanding of user / groups is correct.

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Morrison Industries
1825 Monroe Ave NW.
Grand Rapids, MI. 49505