setting up a shared folder in linux
- by Chris
I'm trying to set up a folder in my home directory that will be shared with another user but for some reason it is not working this is what I've done, I have tried two different ways using ACL's and chown/chgrp etc
I set up a group called say: sharedgroup and added both my user (john) and fred to it so when I run
groups john
john wheel sharedgroup
groups fred
sharedgroup fred
mkdir /home/john/shared
vim /home/john/shared/hello.txt (typed in some text saved it)
chown -R :sharedgroup shared
chmod -R o=-rwx shared
ll
drwxrwx--- 2 john sharedgroup 4096 Sep 9 21:14 shared
ll shared
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john sharedgroup 7 Sep 9 21:14 hello.txt
(I also tried adding in the s permissions but that didn't help either)
then when I log out of the server and log back in as fred and try these commands they fail
vim /home/john/shared/hello.txt (won't allow me to write opens a blank file)
cd /home/john/shared
-bash: cd: /home/john/cis: Permission Denied
ls /home/john/shared
-ls: /home/john/shared: Permission Denied
ls -lad /home/john/shared
-ls: /home/john/shared: Permission Denied
id fred
uid=500(fred) gid=502(sharedgroup) groups=502(sharedgroup),500(fred) context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t
Any idea what I'm doing wrong??
