Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Did you just add yourself to that group? The processes you run will > not know you are a member of that group until you logout and login > again (open new SSH session, etc.). > > When you issue the "id" command (with no parameters), does it include > the "postgres" group? > ah, yes, I had just added that in another root shell. you're right, I logged out and back and and yes, it -does- work... [pierce at xxxx test]$ id uid=503(pierce) gid=503(pierce) groups=26(postgres),503(pierce) [pierce at xxxx test]$ ls -la total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 pierce pierce 4096 May 13 07:58 . drwxr-xr-x 37 pierce root 4096 May 13 07:57 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 pierce pierce 0 May 13 07:58 x [pierce at xxxx test]$ chgrp postgres x [pierce at xxxx test]$ ls -la total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 pierce pierce 4096 May 13 07:58 . drwxr-xr-x 37 pierce root 4096 May 13 07:57 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 pierce postgres 0 May 13 07:58 x