Permissions problem

bmorel · 05-20-2005, 02:21 PM

Hello all,

I'm running RHEL3.
Here is my problem:

- I have 2 users, say user1 and user2, with home dirs /home/user1 and /home/user2
- I create (as user1) a file /home/user1/.htaccess with owner user1 and group user1, and chmod'ed 777.
- I log in as user2.
- I try to "cat /home/user1/.htaccess"

And I got a "Permission denied".

Where is the problem ?

Thanks in advance for your answers

Ben

ksgill · 05-20-2005, 02:37 PM

ls -l /path/to/file
to check if chmod worked.See what it says, it normally shouldnt give u permission denied with 777 permissions.

bmorel · 05-20-2005, 02:42 PM

That's why I don't understand, here is the output :
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user1 user1 0 mai 20 20:38 .htaccess

Boow · 05-20-2005, 03:07 PM

but users dont have access to each others home directorys as it should be. make a directory somewhere else that both users can access.

bmorel · 05-20-2005, 04:01 PM

Hmm ok I did not know this !
Thanks a lot.