On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Michael Velez <mikev...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, I'm having an issue with group permissions which I really find > hard to understand why. I have created a group called smbusers which I am a > part of by doing the following: # groupadd smbusers# usermod -G smbusers > michael I then created a directory called foodir, owned by adm with group > smbusers and give the following permissions to it: 770 I verify the > permissions are correct and are accessible by members of its group, but I > cannot access the directory. Everytime I try to cd into the directory, I get > a permission denied error. It is a group issue because when I change the > permission to 777, I do have access. Below is output I get from different > commands: # groups michaelmichael: michael, smbusers # groupsmichael adm > #iduid=500(michael) gid=500(michael) groups=4(adm), 500(michael) The > /etc/group file shows I'm in the smbusers group but does not show I'm in the > adm group (although I believe I added myself to the adm group when I > installed the operating system). Clear > ly, I don't know what I'm doing and I am confused. Can anybody guide me to > where I need to go? Thanks,Michael > Use the id command to check what groups you are in. Stop nscd if it is running and run id again.
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