Hi, I am creating another user and placing an existing user in the group of other user, hoping to write in the home directory of other user. Sounds very simple!
# uname -a Linux vini 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:18:14 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # whoami vivek # su root # useradd -m -U foo // create user foo # usermod -a -G foo vivek // add user `vivek' to group `foo' # chmod 770 /home/foo/ # exit # whoami vivek # cd /home/foo/ bash: cd: /home/foo/: Permission denied # groups vivek vivek : vivek foo This is totally weird. Though user `vivek' is in group `foo', and group bits for /home/foo/ is set to rwx, `vivek' can't chdir to /home/foo/. I am not able to understand this. But, if at the `exit' step, I switch to `vivek' user from root, this is what happens: # uname -a Linux vini 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:18:14 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # whoami vivek # su root # useradd -m -U foo // create user foo # usermod -a -G foo vivek // add user `vivek' to group `foo' # chmod 770 /home/foo/ # su vivek # whoami vivek # cd /home/foo/ # ls examples.desktop Now, whatever is happening here is totally incomprehensible. Does `su vivek' inherits some permissions from the `root' user at this step? Any explanations would be much appreciated. Thanks, Vivek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caentugpdtomw8u6ooovp3sp2unmpn-0e5grakjoumdxykqb...@mail.gmail.com
