Re: Permissions and groups

["Derek Martin-9" <user=7@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 05:03:11PM -0400, Bill Horne wrote: 
> 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? 

Three questions: 

1. What is the complete output of "ls -ld /public" ? 

2. What is the complete output of "id bill" ? 

3. What command are you trying to run to write in /public? 

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