Told you it was a stupid question. Forgot to
logout/login. Thanks.

--- Andreas Maus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 12/13/06, stupidmail4me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> > My username is foo and primary group is therefore
> also
> > foo. I am also in the group bar.
> Did you logout and login again after adding yourself
> to the group "bar"? If not do so.
> 
> Whats the output of id?
> 
> > I have a directory called "anything" owned by
> bar:bar.
> > It's permissions are 770. Why can't I traverse
> it's
> > tree? Doesn't my being in the bar group allow me
> with
> > the second 7 to traverse anything's tree?
> Depends on the permissions of the upper directory.
> e.g. if the directory is /home/bar/foo_bar and
> /home/bar
> is only readable+executable for user bar (read 0700)
> you are not allowed to enter this directory and so
> you can't
> enter any directories below that dir.
> 
> Andreas.
> 
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