group permissions: touch: cannot touch `filename': Permission denied
 

I have two users set up on my system: 'tiger' and 'photos'. The user 'tiger' is a member of group 'photos':

I have set the home directory for 'photos' to give group read, write and execute access. ls -l from /home yields:

logged in as user 'tiger', I expect that I should be able to create files or directories in /home/photos because I have given write access to the group 'photos' and tiger is in this group. However, when I change working directory to /home/photos and try to touch the file 'foo' (which does not exist), I get:

what gives?

problem solved.
 

'group' for current login is set at login time; logging in again using 'su - tiger' solved the problem. See the following link for details:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-setup-602029/

Thanks!
 

Found this via Google and it helped me out :study: