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Re: Permissions and groups



 Bill Horne wrote: 
> Thanks for reading this. I've got a very basic question about group 
> permissoins. 
> 
> Here's the setup: 
> 
> Debian Etch 
> 
> Directory /public with permissions rwxrwxr x. Owner is "root", group is 
> "users". 
> 
> User "bill" is a member of users, yet I can't write to the /public 
> directory. Why? 
> 
> TIA. 
> 
> Bill 
> 


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