Re: Weird permission problem

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 03:29:44PM -0500, Stanton, Curt (NCI/IMS) wrote:
> I have two users UserA and UserB
> They both belong to GroupA
> 
> DirA is where all the files are
> UserA is the owner of DirA and
> GroupA is the group of DirA
> 
> The problem is that UserB can only commit files that he owns, but UserA can
> commit any file.
> What might the problem be?

The directory doesn't have group write permission -- it's drwxr-xr-x
instead of drwxrwxr-x?

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