Re: groups

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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?

Double check everything you did because it sounds correct to me.

Or send some "ls -l" listings and your group file to the list
so we can double check your work.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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