Unix copy to different groups help request

Jungle Boogie jungleboogie0 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 10 00:42:18 UTC 2015


Hello Friends,

This just in: computers always do what you tell them to do!

Now you great people: please teach me so I can tell my computer what I'm 
trying to do.

Objective: cp file to /usr/local/www/data for lighttpd without using sudo all 
the time.

Problem: It seems like I have the right group everywhere: file, /usr/local 
/usr/local/www and I'm in that group, too.


User: jboogie
% id
uid=1007(jboogie) gid=1008(jboogie) 
groups=1008(jboogie),0(wheel),5(operator),80(www),1002(usb)


% ls -l /usr/local/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel       512 Jan  5 17:19 www

% sudo chown www:www /usr/local/www

% ls -l /usr/local
drwxr-xr-x   4 www   www         512 Jan  5 17:19 www

% ls -l /usr/local/www/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 www   www    512 Jan  9 14:54 data



% ls -l vanmorrison.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 jboogie  jboogie  144 Jan  9 16:21 vanmorrison.txt

% cp vanmorrison.txt /usr/local/www/data
cp: /usr/local/www/data/vanmorrison.txt: Permission denied

% sudo chgrp www vanmorrison.txt

% ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r--  1 jboogie  www  144 Jan  9 16:21 vanmorrison.txt

% cp vanmorrison.txt /usr/local/www/data
cp: /usr/local/www/data/vanmorrison.txt: Permission denied

% chmod a+rw vanmorrison.txt
lyander-fbsd% ls -l
total 4
-rw-rw-rw-  1 jboogie  www  144 Jan  9 16:21 vanmorrison.txt

% cp vanmorrison.txt /usr/local/www/data
cp: /usr/local/www/data/vanmorrison.txt: Permission denied


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