[CentOS] Permission question
Victor Padro
vpadro at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 00:01:40 UTC 2011
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:29 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 10/05/11 1:01 PM, Victor Padro wrote:
>> chmod -R owneruser:newuser1 /home/owneruserdir
>
> chMOD changes the access modes, not the owner:group. rather, you likely
> should have done...
>
> chgrp -R newuser1 /home/owneruserdir
> chmod -R g+rwx /home/owneruserdir
>
> AND you likely want to set the group sticky bit so new files inherit the
> group
>
> find /home/owneruserdir -type d | xargs chmod g+s
>
> also, you'll want to globally set
>
> umask 0002
>
> so files get created group write by default.
>
>
>
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I did what you just suggest and now I can't see the contents of /home,
seems like I'm jailed on my own home directory, is there a way to know
if I'm jailed and a way to be unjailed if that's the case?
Thank you.
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