-edit- i figured it out. I needed to use adduser username group
instead.
I added a user with the command
useradd -G myapp_user newusername
then i changed the group on the public folder that i want the user to access. Here is the line using ls -l
I see the group has been set.
drwxrwxr-x 3 root myapp_user 4096 Jul 9 19:13 public
I cd into it and do it again to and i see files like the below with the group. I also see rwx on both the public folder and on the content inside the directory.
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root myapp_user 4403 Oct 10 2007 info.png
Then i login as the user and CD into the folder i wrote touch a
and i got a permission error. I cant add, delete or do anything even though i see 775 is the permission. I also tried useradd -G myapp_user newusername
to find the user is already part of the group
what am i missing? am i suppose to flush something before it takes effect? restart something? why cant the user modify anything in the public folder?
using putty and winscp. But right now just putty.
-edit- i wrote id newusername
and got the below. Why isnt the groupname included?!
uid=1000(newusername) gid=1000(newusername) groups=1000(newusername)
Best Answer
You setup the groups correctly, but the user's list of groups is set when they first login, and won't normally ever be re-evaluated. If you make a change to a user's list of groups, you either need to log out and log back in, or you need to run the
newgrp
command.