[K12OSN] advice needed: re linux file permissions

[Petre Scheie]

Did you have user B logout and log back in?  Group membership is established only at login.

Petre

john wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to give a user write permission on a directory and the files 
> and sub-directory's located therein. The directory and its contents are 
> owned by user A, and I want user B to have rwx permissions on that 
> directory as well. So I tried adding user B to /etc/groups using vigr 
> and doing the following. The directory is 775 but user B still can't do 
> touch in the directory. When I use the 'groups' command as that user, I 
> don't see that 'B' is part of the group 'A'. Here's what the relevant 
> part of my /etc/groups file looks like.
> A:x:508,B
> 
> Thanks for any advice you can give me!
> 
> John
> 
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