From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave Subject: Re: security Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:22:45 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40328625.4080403@dpomeroy.com> References: <40325596.6090805@dpomeroy.com> <20040217191000.GA30689@teamfinders.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040217191000.GA30689@teamfinders.org> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Theo. Sean Schulze" Cc: linux-newbie Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:55:34AM -0800, dave hunted and pecked out: > > >>I've been runing Mandrake for a couple of years and I'm still having >>problems with groups. >>This is the procedure for making a group and sharing a subdirectory that >>I use. Can someone tell me where I'm screwing up? Thanks in advance >> >>Make a folder: mkdir /home/everyone >>make group: groupadd everyone >>add users gpasswd -a dave everyone >>add users gpasswd -a laura everyone >>change the group for the folder chgrp -R everyone /home/everyone >>add write for group everyone chmod g+r /home/everyone >> >> > >Could just be a typo, but r adds read privileges. g+w would add write >privileges. > > > >>When I'm done with this I still can not make a folder in /home/everyone >>logged on as dave. >> >> > >If that wasn't a typo, then it would explain why you can't write a new >directory in the /home/everyone folder. > > > >>again thanks for your help >> >>-- >>Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South Eastern Washington >> >> >> >Cheers, >Sean > > Sean, That was a typo. I've made some progress with Rays help. It appears msec is causing the problem. It keeps running and revoking the write on the /home/everyone subdirectory for the group. I'll work on msec. Thanks for the help -- Dave Pomeroy K7DNP South Eastern Washington - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs