[PLUG] Problems with permissions and group membership...I thnik

[Steve Boak]

On Sunday 01 October 2006 01:10, sothisistheinternet wrote:
> I made a test directory with the same result: members of the sambaaccess
> group cannot cd into it unless I use newgrp sambaaccess (and even then,
> it's only for that shell window, not other programs):
> [root at server1 /]# mkdir /test
> [root at server1 /]# chmod 770 /test
> [root at server1 /]# chgrp sambaaccess /test
>
> this has got to be something so obvious that I'm going to feel very
> silly....right?
>
Dunno about feeling silly, but I got caught with what sounds like the same 
problem - the group add does not take effect until you log out and back in 
again because your current session uses a copy of the conditions (group 
memberships included) when you started it. Killing your current terminal and 
starting another under a single GUI session is not enough.

Steve

> On 10/1/06, sothisistheinternet <sothisistheinternet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > more information:
> >
> > The only areas where my group's users cannot go are /sambadirectory (the
> > problem), /root, and /lost+found (I'm using Nautilus).
> >
> > /sambadirectory is a separate drive mounted in fstab as /sambadirectory,
> > if that's of any consequence...
> >
> > On 10/1/06, sothisistheinternet <sothisistheinternet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've just installed FC5 and am having a play with permissions on a
> > > directory that will become a samba share. I want members of the
> > > sambaaccess group to have access, but noone else.
> > >
> > > - I created the sambaaccess group.
> > > - I used gpasswd +a [user] [group] to add the users (I had already
> > > created with useradd) to the sambaaccess group
> > > - I did a chgrp sambaaccess to the directory I'm working with,
> > > /sambadirectory
> > > - I did chmod 770 /sambadirectory
> > >
> > > When I log in as a user that is a member of the sambaaccess group I
> > > cannot even cd into the directory unless I chmod 775 /sambadirectory.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Ari

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