Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:10:49 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Group permissions are broken? Message-ID: <20110815201049.GB8675@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4E497C2A.4060403@rawbw.com> References: <4E497C2A.4060403@rawbw.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 15), Yuri said: > User john is a member of both webcamd and vboxusers: > # grep john /etc/group > webcamd:*:145:john > vboxusers:*:920:john > > When the file /tmp/my-test is owned by webcamd, user john can touch it ok: > $ ls -l /tmp/my-test ; touch /tmp/my-test > -rw-rw---- 1 vboxusers vboxusers 0 Aug 15 12:54 /tmp/my-test > > But when /tmp/my-test is owned by webcamd, user john gets an error: > $ ls -l /tmp/my-test ; touch /tmp/my-test > -rw-rw---- 1 webcamd webcamd 0 Aug 15 13:02 /tmp/my-test > touch: /tmp/my-test: Permission denied > > Why does this error occur? Two groups seem identical. Just different group > ids. > > Filesystem is UFS: /dev/ad10s1a on / (ufs, NFS exported, local) As a sanity check, what is the output of the "groups" command? If you recently edited /etc/group, maybe you need to log out and back in to a credential with the new group list? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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