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Hi,

I've created a user named fwadmin, group named fwadmin and made the user belong to that group. I created the user and group using the 'User Manager' in Centos.

The user belongs to /etc/fw.Does this also mean that the group fwadmin belongs to /etc/fw. That is what I want.

But when I check the /etc/fw directory I don't see any user/group named fwadmin there. Why is this and how do I solve it?

I want to also make /etc/fw group writable. To do so I use this command in the console :
But I am instead returned with an error :

chmod: cannot access `fwadmin': No such file or directory

So what has happened to the user and group that I've created?Why are they not visible?

Pls help. Tqs.

chmod is for setting permission on files and directories:

Code:

chmod g+w /etc/fw

If you want to change the user and / or group ownership of a file use chown.

Code:

chown fwadmin:fwadmin /etc/fw

If you're not sure that the user was created properly, then id it, or check the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.

A user doesn't belong to a directory or a file. It's the other way around.

What are you looking for in /etc/fw?

Actually I have to make /etc/fw belong to group fwadmin. So I thought that when I created the fwadmin user and group, I should be able to see it in the /etc/fw directory.

Is there a way to check whether or not the /etc/fw directory belongs to the fwadmin group?

Code:

ls -ld /etc/fw

So when I type ls -ld /etc/fw at the prompt, the output that I get is :

drwxrwxrwx 15 fwadmin fwadmin 4096 Dec 3 15:01 /etc/fw

This already means that /etc/fw is group writable.
So now the next step that I did was type this into the prompt :

This is for the firewall builder policy installer to login to the firewall as fwadmin and then copy the firewall script to /etc/fw/New.fw and then use the command above to execute it.

The output that I get is as follows :

What it shows is that when I type the password for the firewall machine, the error returned is that it cannot find name for group id 502. When I change the permissions for both /etc/passwd and /etc/group to 644, the error still appears.

I do not have anymore ideas of how to correct the error.

Pls help.