From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 10 02:05:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA04033 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 02:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA04023 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 02:05:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA27668; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:04:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199710100904.LAA27668@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: group permissions In-Reply-To: from Shawn Ramsey at "Oct 9, 97 07:24:18 pm" To: shawn@luke.cpl.net (Shawn Ramsey) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:04:52 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have noticed that group permissions are not working on our server. If a > file is set to, for example : > > -rw-r----- 1 avatar wheel 1307 Oct 2 17:07 avatar.txt > > > Only avatar can read it. If world has r/w everyone can read. Ive tried Make sure you are in group wheel by asking id(1). $ id uid=8999(helbig) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this does not this counts count What is the error message if you try to read it? Do the directories of avatar.txt's pathname have the proper permissions. You must have execute permissions on them. Wolfgang