Trouble setting up a shared folder


 
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Old 09-09-2012
[Solved] Trouble setting up a shared folder

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 chown/chgrp etc

I set up a group called say: sharedgroup and added both my user (john) and fred to it so when I run
Code:
groups john
john wheel sharedgroup

groups fred
sharedgroup fred 

mkdir /home/john/shared
vim /home/john/shared/hello.txt (typed in some text saved it)
chown -R :sharedgroup shared
chmod -R o=-rwx shared
ll
drwxrwx--- 2 john sharedgroup   4096 Sep  9 21:14 shared
ll shared
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john sharedgroup 7 Sep  9 21:14 hello.txt

(I also tried adding in the s permissions but that didn't help either)



then when I log out of the server and log back in as fred and try these commands they fail
Code:
vim /home/john/shared/hello.txt (won't allow me to write opens a blank file)
cd /home/john/shared
 PERMISSION DENIED
ls /home/john/shared
 PERMISSION DENIED

Any idea what I'm doing wrong??

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Last edited by vbe; 09-10-2012 at 04:59 AM..
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Old 09-10-2012
Maybe if you said on what platform you were, it could help...
Some OS, the fact you belong to the group suffice (HPUX...) some will require (Solaris (10)...) that you newgrp <groupname> before... but we dont know what you OS and vesrion you are on...( you said you tried with ACLs but here we see nothing...)
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Old 09-10-2012
Is /home/John executable for that group or for others?
This User Gave Thanks to RudiC For This Post:
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Old 09-10-2012
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
Code:
chown -R :sharedgroup /home/john
chmod g=rwx /home/john

and everything worked fine

Thanks
 
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