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Incarna

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Registered: 2015-03-20

Posts: 2

[SOLVED]how does the access control work?

In my case, my file's permissions are like this:
[binary@utopia abyss]$ ll
total 152
drwxrwxr--  3 abyss users  4096 Apr  9 20:22 Android
drwxrwxr--  2 abyss users  4096 Apr  9 12:59 Desktop
drwxrwxr--  7 abyss users  4096 Apr 16 17:08 Dev
drwxrwxr-- 17 abyss users  4096 Apr 23 10:23 Documents
drwxrwxr--  3 abyss users 12288 Apr 21 19:22 Downloads

and of course the user [binary] is in group [users]

users:x:100:binary,abyss

but when i tried to open a dir i get permission issues:

[binary@utopia abyss]$ cd Dev
-bash: cd: Dev: Permission denied

can somebody help me on this

Last edited by Incarna (2015-04-23 04:31:20)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED]how does the access control work?

Directories have to have the 'x' flag set.  Apparently binary is not in users.  They are in 'other', but x is not enabled for them.   What is the output of groups when logged in as binary ? 
I note that you posted something that looks like a line from /etc/passwd, but unless binary has logged out and back in, it does not count.

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Incarna

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Registered: 2015-03-20

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Re: [SOLVED]how does the access control work?

Directories have to have the 'x' flag set.  Apparently binary is not in users.  They are in 'other', but x is not enabled for them.   What is the output of groups when logged in as binary ? 
I note that you posted something that looks like a line from /etc/passwd, but unless binary has logged out and back in, it does not count.

okay i forgot to log out after updating the user’s group.

thanks for helping ^ ^