Re: Rehashing My File Permissions Understanding(or lack of it)

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On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 17:02 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> >Hi Mark,
> >
> >If both users are members of the nfsshare group, and /home/nfsshare has
> >it's group set to nfsshare, then both users should have write access to
> >the file, as you have set read, write and execute for the group (the
> >second "7").
> >  
> >
> as I thought too...
> 
The directory is 775

> >For the other user to be able to open the file, they need read
> >permission to the file, plus read (and perhaps execute - sorry, not
> >certain here) to the parent directories of the file.
> >  
> >
> this was the problem...dunno why, but, the parent dir nfsshare had 700 
> as it's permissions...changing this to 775 solved it
The file permissions are important as well.
In order for the owner and a member of the group to edit/write a file,
the file permissions must be at least 660.

> >To isolate the issue to just file permissions (not OOWriter), try
> >running the "file" command against the saved file as the second user,
> >from a shell.
> >
> >Eg.  $ file /home/nfsshare/file.sxw 
> >
> >This will at least verify that the other user has read access to the
> >file.
> >  
> >
> good trick that...
> 
> >Also, if /home/nfsshare is NFS mounted, check the permissions on the
> >mount, using the "mount" command.
> >  
> >
> this does get mounted by a client(s), but, this time I was accessing 
> from the server..
> 
> >Cheers, Ben
> >  
> >
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark Sargent.
> 


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