Ahh my bad I'm on RHEL. Either way I fixed it. RudiC you had it right I didn't have the directory permissions for /home/john set. I ran
chown -R :sharedgroup /home/john
chmod g=rwx /home/john
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I'm trying to set up a folder in my home directory that will be shared with another user but for some reason it is not working this is what I've done, I have tried two different ways using ACL's and...