Re: howto write permission

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

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    Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:49:45 -0500
To: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>

    Ron Johnson wrote:
    > 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?
    >

    No, .. it's always the simple things. Thanks

    paul 

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