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? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. GGLX : Gnome GNU Linux X.Org
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