For example the directory /gdata/bibliography/Work/GroupBib/trunk/ can be written in by user phaley but not by other users who are member of the group mseasweb. The directory has permissions [root at mseas ~]# ls -lh /gdata/bibliography/Work/GroupBib total 12K drwxrwsr-x 4 phaley mseasweb 4.0K Aug 30 12:31 trunk The parent directory (/gdata/bibliography/Work/GroupBib) has permissions [root at mseas ~]# ls -lh /gdata/bibliography/Work/ total 8.0K drwxrwsr-x 6 phaley mseasweb 4.0K Aug 30 14:01 GroupBib On 08/31/2016 02:04 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Stupid question, and note I missed most of the earlier posts in this > thread: what are the permissions on the directory that this directory are > in? > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Pat Haley Email: phaley at mit.edu Center for Ocean Engineering Phone: (617) 253-6824 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Fax: (617) 253-8125 MIT, Room 5-213 http://web.mit.edu/phaley/www/ 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4301