Re: Permissions and groups

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 That problem description isn't detailed enough to identify the problem. 
What exactly are you trying to do that fails, and what is the error 
message? 

Given the permissions you describe, you should be able to create 
new files in /public and delete files from /public while logged in as 
the user "bill". However: 

If you try to create a file "foo", and there's already a file "foo" in 
/public that you don't have permissions on, then you'd actually 
be trying to modify "foo" and that would be failing. 

Similarly, if there's a directory, symlink, or other file type named "foo", 
the same issue arises. 



On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Bill Horne <[hidden email]> 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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