execute/access on /home/perry/trunk is enough read chmod(1).
On Dec 5, 2007 4:30 PM, Lawrence Guirre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > You need to have the parent directories o+rx for 'others' to be able > to read into the directories. So /home/perry and /home/perry/trunk > and /home/perry/trunk/so needs to be o+rwx to be writeable by > john. Better yet, add john to perry's group and allow perry's group > write permissions on the ~/trunk/so directory. > > HTH! > > Lawrence > > > johnrob y bantang wrote: > > Hello, > > > > it must be the permission of the directory /home/perry/trunk if you > > are accessing the copied file as user john. > > > > > >> On Dec 5, 2007 12:49 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi: > >>> > >>> Suppose I logged in as user john, and I tried copying > >>> a.txt from /home/john/devel into /home/perry/trunk/so > >>> (owned by perry); but everytime I get a "Permission denied" > >>> error. > >>> > >>> I tried logging in in as perry and execute the > >>> following commands to allow anybody to copy into "so" > >>> subdirectory : > >>> cd trunk > >>> chmod 777 so > >>> > >>> After I executing this command, john is still unable to > >>> copy a.txt from /home/john/devel into /home/perry/trunk/so > >>> > >>> I tried another step, I logged in as john and execute: > >>> ln -s /home/perry/trunk/so my_so > >>> cp a.txt my_so > >>> > >>> I still get a permission denied. I tried changing the > >>> permissions /home/perry and /home/perry/trunk into > >>> rwx--x--x, but it still doesn't work. > >>> > >>> I wonder why it doesn't work. If I'm not mistaken > >>> permission mode 777 allows anybody to read/write/execute, > >>> Plus the fact the change the permission mode of /home/perry > >>> and /home/perry/trunk into rwx--x--x(According to my man > >>> pages, x is allowed access if it is a directory); so based > >>> on my understanding, anybody can access /home/perry and > >>> /home/perry/trunk > >>> > > > > the permission should be rwxrwxrwx for the directory so that all > > others can read and write into the directory not just access and see > > what is inside (--x). > > > > > > > > hope this helps. > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
