Randy Kramer wrote: > I just ran into something that surprised me. > > I was trying to let one user have access to a file owned by another > user (and in that other user's $HOME hierarchy). I did not want to > change the group owner of the file in this case, so I tried giving the > file (and all directories above it) the appropriate permissions for all > (other) -- like o+rw for the file, and o+rx for all directories above > the file. > > In this case, the parent directory of the file in question had a group > "owner" but no permissions assigned. The user to whom I was trying to > give access could not get access to the file until I went back and > assigned some group permissions to the parent directory of the file -- > specifically g+rx. > > Is that the expected behavior in LInux? > > thanks, > Randy Kramer
Hi Randy, It is indeed the expected behavior. IN fact, I was going to suggest making user "B" a member of the same group as user "A". "A" being the files original owner. Then allowing both users rw access to the file by chmod'ing it 664 or 660 so that it was readable and writable by both the file owner and the group. Mark
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