# create proj group groupadd proj
# make an administrator own the root dir. paul.proj is also fine... chown -R root.proj /project
# make permissions inherit to children... chmod g+rwxs /project
# root can change john's group membership like this usermod -G proj john
# which should be equivalent to this but I've had trouble with it gpasswd -a john proj
# in theory, this would make Paul proj's administrator gpasswd -A paul proj
# to verify john was added where he belongs: grep john /etc/groups
Hi David,
Your answer did it: it works!
However, because I had done both the usermod-thing and the gpasswd-thing, I'm not sure whether one or both work correctly: the logoff did it (I had to logoff from X though).
Thanks for your instructive mail. Still not a sysadmin, but at least I start to understand groups.
Guus. -- A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands, user #328198 (Linux Counter http://counter.li.org)
