Group Folder

arew264 · 11-23-2007, 11:43 PM

I haven't tried anything this fun with permissions yet, so I'm kinda confused.
I set out to create a music folder that would be owned by a music group. I created the music group, created a folder, set that folder as owned by the music group, and chmodded it to 775. I then added my user to the music group.
I then tried to create a file in that folder, and permission was denied. What's going on here? Do I have to re-login because I added myself to a group or something?

simcox1 · 11-24-2007, 08:36 AM

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Do I have to re-login because I added myself to a group or something?

Yes, you generally have to logout and back in again when you make a change like that, because the relevant file is only read upon login.

matthewg42 · 11-24-2007, 10:23 AM

New login shells will have the new group setting. If you want to do a quick test, you can open a terminal, and switch to your own user using "su - yourusername". It seems a little odd to switch to the user name which you are already using, but the - option makes the new shell a login shell, and it should have the new group setting inside that shell.

This is a time saver if you use a graphical login, and you want to try out a new group setting without completely logging out and back in again.

arew264 · 11-24-2007, 11:52 AM

Thanks, that got it working. I'll keep that shortcut in mind.