> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Barry Brimer > Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 6:42 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] file permissions and groups > > > I have a file owned by apache:apache with permissions of 640. > > > > I have added myself to the apache group using usermod -G (and I can > > verify that using the groups command) but I still can't read the > > abovementioned file. > > What are the permissions of the directories from the root of > the filesystem up top the directory that the file is in? > > Is there any useful information in your apache logs? > > Barry All permissions are 755 owned by root:root up to /var/www/html and then /var/www/html/subdir is owned by apache:apache with mode 755. Unfortunately, there is nothing useful in the apache logs, either. Michael