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Old 07-04-2008, 03:34 PM   #1
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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':

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

Code:
drwxrwxr-x  16 photos   photos   4.0K Apr 28 23:35 photos/
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:

Code:
$ touch foo
touch: cannot touch `foo': Permission denied
what gives?
 
Old 07-04-2008, 03:44 PM   #2
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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/
 
Old 11-27-2008, 09:23 AM   #3
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Found this via Google and it helped me out
 
  


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