User in group with r/w access does not actually get the read/write anything

Question

I added my user to the www-data group. I chmodded a certain directory to 774 (-R, recursively) so only the owner and the group can change something.

Yet my user can't even access it. What am I missing? Here's my ls -alh output:

drwxrwxr-- 13 www-data www-data 4,0K 2011-03-28 23:10 mydir

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '11 at 14:49

2

What does id -a return? You may need to start a new shell or run newgrp, since your existing shells will not automatically get the new group permissions.
774 permissions will probably not do what you want. I suspect you want 775. Without execute permissions, other users will not be able to search the directory.

answered Mar 29 '11 at 14:49

justarobert

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 29 '11 at 14:06

0

All I can think of is that the upper directory doesn't have permissions correctly set.

answered Mar 29 '11 at 14:06

Jonathan Ross

2 Answers2