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Old 04-23-2009
devtakh devtakh is offline
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I have created a file and set the permission to read and write only for user and group. Here is how I did it:

chmod filename 660

I used ls -l to see and the changes are right so, why is it saying permission denied when I try to change into it. When I type cd filename, I am told permission denied. Why?
the correct syntax is
chmod 660 filename

also, make sure you(user) is the owner or belong to the group of the filename.


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam