[SOLVED] Folder Group permission Fedora

kouroshz · 02-25-2011, 11:55 AM

Hi,

I am trying to give the members of the group write permission to a folder as follows:

$sudo groupadd my_group
$sudo usermod -a -G my_group user_name

$sudo mkdir /group_folder
$sudo chgrp my_group /group_folder -R
$sudo chmod g+w /group_folder -R

on the above user_name is my own username

Then I try to write in the folder as myself:

$cd /group_folder
$touch test

and I get Permission denied.

What am I not doing right? I am running Fedora Release 14. Can anybody help please.

Cheers,

kz

fordeck · 02-25-2011, 01:04 PM

It should work, You might try logging out and back in again so your new group membership takes affect.

Regards,

Fordeck

bigrigdriver · 02-25-2011, 01:26 PM

Quote:

$sudo mkdir /group_folder
$sudo chgrp my_group /group_folder -R
$sudo chmod g+w /group_folder -R

Did you test your chgrp and chmod to see that they worked. ls -l /group_folder will show you the owner and group of the folder. It will also show you whether or not the group does indeed have write permission.

John VV · 02-25-2011, 11:20 PM

did you set up sudo ?
fedora dose not use it by default and dose not even install it by default

kouroshz · 02-27-2011, 08:47 AM

Thanks for the replies.

When you do ls -l all the permissions seem correct:

$ls -l
drwxrwxr-x.

My sudo is also setup correctly. However, when I logged out and back in, everything worked as expected! I think I just needed to log out and back in for the new group to take effect.

Thank you very much.

kz

fordeck · 02-27-2011, 09:07 AM

Great I'm glad it is working for you now. You might consider marking the thread as solved, using the Thread Tools at the top of the page so that others might benefit.

Regards,

Fordeck