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Re: Help with groups, please.



On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:22:33PM +0100, Steve Simons wrote:
> I want to give full access to /var/www/* to members of the group
> 'authors'.  I created the group with 'groupadd authors', added steve
> to the group with 'gpasswd -a steve authors' and changed the group
> of the files with 'chgrp authors /var/www/*'.  After logging out and
> in as steve, why do I get permission denied errors?

chmod g+w /var/www 

you might want to make it setgid so all files created there have group
authors too:

chmod 2775 /var/www

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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