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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2001 08:49:38 -0500
From:      Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com>
To:        Tobias Roth <roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: trouble with groups
Message-ID:  <20010307084937.A61698@guinness.osdn.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010307142542.B9749@arp.unibe.ch>; from roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:25:42PM %2B0100
References:  <20010307142542.B9749@arp.unibe.ch>

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On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 at 14:25:42 +0100, Tobias Roth wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I just changed /etc/groups like this:
> 
> cvs:*:1001:hans
> 
> I added the user hans to group cvs Now could someone explain me this:
> 
> [hans@sunbbw060 /usr/home] ls -l total 2 drwxrwxr-x   4 cvs      cvs
> 512 Mar  7 14:05 cvs drwxr-xr-x  15 hans     hans         1024 Mar  7
> 11:36 hans [hans@sunbbw060 /usr/home] touch cvs/test touch: cvs/test:
> Permission denied
> 
> [hans@sunbbw060 /usr/home] whoami hans [hans@sunbbw060 /usr/home] id
> uid=1000(hans) gid=1000(hans) groups=1000(hans), 0(wheel)
> [hans@sunbbw060 /usr/home] id hans uid=1000(hans) gid=1000(hans)
> groups=1000(hans) 0(wheel) 1001(cvs) [hans@sunbbw060 /usr/home] 
> 
> Which means two things: The user hans cannot write to a dir that
> belongs to group cvs lathough he appears to have the right
> permissions. And id returns two different results based on the
> optional user argument.
> 
> I must have misunderstood the basics of the file access system here,
> I'd be glad if someone could enlighten me a bit.

Did you log the user out and back in after you changed the group?

- jim

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