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Old 07-11-2007
Urgent: ACCESS PROBLEM
Hi

I have users A and B in UNIX system both are not having root priveleges.
User A has written a script file where it connects to database and uses a logfile directed to the path in directory of USER B.
I copied the script into USER B directory and tried to run the script.

Its giving following error message:

The file access permissions do not allow the specified action

The specified action is to create the LOGFILE . apart from this i am not able to delete or remove any files also from USER B directory.

I have tried by changing the owner of the script file but still the problem is there.
I have given full access permission to script (777) and still the problem prevails.


Please suggest the posible solution.
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Old 07-11-2007
Do the users who have to run this script share a common group?

I would suggest having the log file in a directory that is writeable by this common group.
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Old 07-11-2007
Re:
how to create a directory which is common to both?

can you provide the syntax?

say users are A and B and i want a file in a directory local to user B.



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Originally Posted by porter
Do the users who have to run this script share a common group?

I would suggest having the log file in a directory that is writeable by this common group.
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Old 07-11-2007
log in as userB

mkdir shared
chmod 770 shared

then if userA is a member of the default group of B, then userA can write to this directory.

This is far better than making the entire home directory of B a free-for-all for everyone.
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