[SunHELP] group directives

[Dale Ghent]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Fernando Machado wrote:

> Dudes!!!!
>
>  All my people are in a group called genesaurs, and i own a directory
> that we have common work. I want my group to read write and exec data
> in this directory, but it shoud be unreadable for other users.
> The /etc/group and /etc/passwd are OK, the rest of dir directives too, i
> have setted up evrth, but when i try to write data at the citated dir as
> a user of the group (not me) i can4t! evrth sound ok, but the rest of
> the users of my group have not write permission.... ( I GAVE WRITE
> PERMISSION TO THEM!!!!)

They have to first change their group to genesaurs from their default
group:

   newgrp genesaurs

Then they can access the directory as you intended.

/ek
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