Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 19:41:56 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unix copy to different groups help request Message-ID: <54B08364.7050406@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <54B07564.4000504@gmail.com> References: <54B07564.4000504@gmail.com>
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On 01/09/15 18:42, Jungle Boogie wrote:
> Hello Friends,
>
> This just in: computers always do what you tell them to do!
>
> Now you great people: please teach me so I can tell my computer what
> I'm trying to do.
>
> Objective: cp file to /usr/local/www/data for lighttpd without using
> sudo all the time.
>
> Problem: It seems like I have the right group everywhere: file,
> /usr/local /usr/local/www and I'm in that group, too.
>
>
> User: jboogie
> % id
> uid=1007(jboogie) gid=1008(jboogie)
> groups=1008(jboogie),0(wheel),5(operator),80(www),1002(usb)
>
>
> % ls -l /usr/local/
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jan 5 17:19 www
>
> % sudo chown www:www /usr/local/www
>
> % ls -l /usr/local
> drwxr-xr-x 4 www www 512 Jan 5 17:19 www
>
> % ls -l /usr/local/www/
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 www www 512 Jan 9 14:54 data
>
>
>
> % ls -l vanmorrison.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jboogie jboogie 144 Jan 9 16:21 vanmorrison.txt
>
> % cp vanmorrison.txt /usr/local/www/data
> cp: /usr/local/www/data/vanmorrison.txt: Permission denied
>
> % sudo chgrp www vanmorrison.txt
>
> % ls -l
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jboogie www 144 Jan 9 16:21 vanmorrison.txt
>
> % cp vanmorrison.txt /usr/local/www/data
> cp: /usr/local/www/data/vanmorrison.txt: Permission denied
>
> % chmod a+rw vanmorrison.txt
> lyander-fbsd% ls -l
> total 4
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 jboogie www 144 Jan 9 16:21 vanmorrison.txt
>
> % cp vanmorrison.txt /usr/local/www/data
> cp: /usr/local/www/data/vanmorrison.txt: Permission denied
>
>
Try a 'chmod -R g+w' on /usr/local/www. You changed permissions on the
file (source) itself, that's not the problem, the destination is the issue.
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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