On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 02:20 -0300, Roberto Winter wrote: > Hi all, I already got great advice from this list, so here I go again: > the thing is I can't get "groups" working here and, honestly, I don't > know anyone who can (I have a couple of friends using debian as > well...). > breaks down like this, I'm user "rhwinter" and I want to join group > "camera" that root is part of. He creates a file, changes it's group > owner to "camera" and chmod's it to 770 (for educational purposes, of > course!). > This is the WEIRD behavior I get: > > -----------BEGIN PASTE FROM CONSOLE----------------- > 02:02:53 rhwinter@haydn:~$ su > Password: > 02:02:56 haydn:/home/rhwinter# addgroup camera > Adding group `camera' (1005)... > Concluído. > 02:03:05 haydn:/home/rhwinter# addgroup root camera > Acrescentando usuário root ao grupo camera... > Concluído. > 02:03:13 haydn:/home/rhwinter# groups > root > 02:03:15 haydn:/home/rhwinter# groups root > root : root camera > 02:03:18 haydn:/home/rhwinter# addgroup rhwinter camera > Acrescentando usuário rhwinter ao grupo camera... > Concluído. > 02:03:30 haydn:/home/rhwinter# exit > 02:03:33 rhwinter@haydn:~$ groups > rhwinter audio > 02:03:36 rhwinter@haydn:~$ groups rhwinter > rhwinter : rhwinter audio camera > 02:03:44 rhwinter@haydn:~$ ls -l /root/teste > -rwxrwx--- 1 root camera 0 2004-10-27 02:04 /root/teste > 02:04:26 rhwinter@haydn:~$ cat /root/teste > cat: /root/teste: Permission denied > -----------END PASTE FROM CONSOLE----------------- > (I use portuguese console... so "Acrescentando usuário root ao grupo > camera..." means "Adding user root to the group camera") > > how bizarre could that be?!? > does anyone have a clue what I am doing wrong? > I already tried loggin' off after creating the group, that didn't > help, which pretty much made run out of ideas. When I check the > '/etc/group' everything seems ok: > > $ cat /etc/group|grep camera > camera:x:1005:root,rhwinter > > so, if anyone can help me sort this out I really appreciate. By the > way, If you answer to this, please CC a copy to me, since I don't > subscribe to the list... > > Thanks a lot!! > > Roberto. > What is the permission set of /root ? -- Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu>
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