[CLUE-Tech] groups

[Mike Staver]

Alright, so I created an accounted called ftpguys, and added it to the 
group ftpguys.  Then, I made sure the ftp_files directory is owned by 
ftpguys and so is everything in the directory.  Still no go when I try 
to ftp in as "boz" and try to upload a file.  Also, I can not touch a 
file when su'd as boz.  I seriously don't understand how this groups 
thing works if what I have done thus far doesn't seem to allow people in 
a specific group access to a certain file or directory.  You said the 
system first pays attention to the user id - well, how do I get it to 
look past that and at the group?

Matt Gushee wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:22:52PM -0600, Mike Staver wrote:
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>>I'm ok.  My only question remains then - how do I give ownership of a 
>>file or directory to a group and not an individual?
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>You can't really give *ownership* to a group. Every file belongs primarily
>to a user and secondarily to a group. If what you're trying to do is 
>assign ownership to anyone who has a particular *role* in the system,
>say 'guest' or 'cool_privileged_dude', then you have to have a user
>account representing that role. 
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>  I have used the 
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>>following command on a directory:
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>>chgrp ftpguys /home/ftp_files
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>That affects only the directory. If you want to assign permissions on
>files in that directory, you need to do
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>  chgrp ftpguys /home/ftp_files/*
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>or if there are subdirectories you also want to work on:
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>  chgrp -R ftpguys /home/ftp_files  # -R for 'recursive'
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>>Yet, when I ftp in as one of these accounts, I don't have read/write 
>>permissions in the directory I want.  Am I missing something?
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>There could be an FTP configuration issue here, too. I'm not much good
>with that myself -- I've only ever used FTP anonymously and under my
>regular user name.
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