Re: howto write permission
From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 01/30/05
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To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:43:55 -0600
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 11:13 -0500, Paul wrote:
> 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
[snip]
> 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?
Did you log out & back in?
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