[plug] Unix file permission problem (I think)

[Richard Meyer]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:10 +0800, Steve Boak wrote:

> 
> No, the partition is auto-mounted at boot time.
> 
> min:/var/share# cat /etc/fstab
> [...]
> /dev/hda8       /var/share/download     ext3    defaults        0       2
> 
> Just thought to check actual group numeric values in case something weird was 
> going on here, but they look OK too:
> 
> steve at min:/var/share/download$ id steve
> uid=1000(steve) gid=1000(steve) groups=1000(steve),29(audio),30(dip),1001
> (share)
> 
> steve at min:/var/share/download$ ls -lnd /var/share/download
> drwxrwxr-x  3 0 1001 4096 Jul  7 21:56 /var/share/download
> 
> Steve

I don't know whether this is going to make any difference, but I've been
playing (inconclusively) with the newgrp command - there may be some
setting that requires you to have your EFFECTIVE group the same as the
directory's group.

Not guaranteeing anything, but .....

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