Fwd: Re: [expert] Are group permissions necessary for other (all) permissions?

2002-08-28 Thread Randy Kramer
(Hope this is not a duplicate -- it appears that I originally sent it to myself -- oh, the hazards of experimenting with multiple mail clients. ;-) I guess I should have mentioned that joe and dummy are not in a common group. (joe is in a group called joe, dummy is in a group called dummy,

[expert] Are group permissions necessary for other (all) permissions?

2002-08-27 Thread Randy Kramer
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

Re: [expert] Are group permissions necessary for other (all) permissions?

2002-08-27 Thread Jan Wilson
* Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020827 15:08]: 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

Re: [expert] Are group permissions necessary for other (all) permissions?

2002-08-27 Thread Mark Weaver
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

Re: [expert] Are group permissions necessary for other (all) permissions?

2002-08-27 Thread Jan Wilson
* Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020827 19:21]: file /home/joe/mail/test.txt -rw-r--rw-1 joe joe 8224 Aug 27 20:50 test.txt dir /home drwxr-xr-x5 root root 120 Feb 6 1996 ./ dir /home/joe drwxr-xr-x 32 joe joe 2008 Aug 26 20:03 ./