howto write permission

From: Paul (paula4l_at_access4less.net)
Date: 01/30/05

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    Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:13:13 -0500
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    I wanted to give my self write permission to /usr/local, so did 'adduser
    paul staff', which succeeded.

    paul :~$ cat /etc/group |grep staff
    staff:x:50:paul

    Also, debian sets up /usr/local to be rwx for group staff:

    paul :~$ ls -l /usr/
    total 150
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 58080 2005-01-29 23:04 bin
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 504 2005-01-23 20:06 doc
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1392 2005-01-23 09:36 games
    drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 6136 2005-01-26 20:08 include
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2005-01-17 21:20 info -> share/info
    drwxr-xr-x 136 root root 71648 2005-01-29 23:04 lib
    drwxrwsr-x 12 root staff 336 2005-01-27 15:49 local
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6280 2005-01-29 23:04 sbin
    drwxr-xr-x 238 root root 6608 2005-01-29 23:04 share
    drwxrwsr-x 7 root src 280 2005-01-28 19:46 src
    drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 2005-01-20 12:29 X11R6

    showing that staff has rwx privelege for /usr/local. However, when I try
    to make a directory, I get:

    paul :~$ cd /usr/local
    paul :/usr/local$ mkdir testdir
    mkdir: cannot create directory `testdir': Permission denied

    What am I doing wrong?

    paul 

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