> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Kress > Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 12:16 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] file permissions and groups > > On 11/19/2006 8:39 PM, Michael Velez wrote: > > 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. > > > > Am I not getting something? > > Hi Michael, > > have you already tried the 'newgrp' command? > cu - Michael > When I use the newgrp command, I do change to the apache group and it works. Do you mean 'su - Michael'? su - michael is actually interesting. Before the su -, the output of the id command shows that I'm only in group michael. After the su -, it shows I'm in both groups michael and apache. Why is it that I'm in both groups after su -, and not while in a normal xterm logging shell. Also, I have the same problem of not being able to access the file through the gnome desktop using File Browser (even though I'm in group apache). So, at a login shell doing su - works, both other options (xterm login shell or desktop) do not. Michael