Hi all,


I need a help to fix the permission of directories in various locations.

First , i have user A, whose home directory is /home/A(say), where I have two more users B and C.(who has their corresponding home dir as /home/B and /home/C.

In /home/A , I need to share a directory for all the three(A,B&C).

say /home/A/share.

It was made permission to "drwxrwxrwx" . and it is accessible to B. But not accessible by C.


I am forced into 2 conditions:

1.Not to go for stickybit.
2.Not to move the dir out of /home/A.

Another issue with this is,that this was already setup . The ownership for this directory is with user C, but the directory is not able to read/write/execute by C.
I can login as A/B/C, but not as root. Let me share your thoughts, to help me to solve this.

I need user C to read and execute the files inside /home/A/share.


Thanks

To be able to traverse the directories of A, C needs 'x' permission on all top-level directories. If 'A' and 'C' are members of the same group, then a group 'x' on the directories is sufficient; otherwise you need an 'x' for 'others'. For executing files, C will need 'r' and 'x' permission.

Thank You pinniped.,,

It is the /home/A ,not having the x for others as C belongs to different group.
But I wonder how it works for user B as he also not belongs to the group of A.