group permission problem

[Joachim Weber_1]

Hi,

We have a directory called /testtt with the following permissions and ownership:
drwxrwxr-x 2 life users 96 Feb 5 14:23 /testtt

For some reason the user oracle which has the primary group "dba" but is also a member of the group "users" isn't allowed to create files in that /testtt directory.
Can someone please tell me what do I have to do to enable oracle to write in that directory.


Thanks,

Joachim

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Do you have /etc/logingroup linked to /etc/group? If not then you need to.

# ll /etc/logingroup
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 10 May 30 2003 /etc/logingroup@ -> /etc/group

If it isn't do:

# ln -s /etc/group /etc/logingroup

[V. Nyga]

Hi Joachim,

you can check the assigned groups with the command 'groups'.
See also 'man groups':
A user is granted the permissions of those groups in /etc/passwd and /etc/logingroup at login time.

So simpliest create a link between /etc/group and /etc/logingroup.

Volkmar

[Joachim Weber_1]

Hi Patrick,

That was quick! and it solved my problem. I didn't get the meaning of /etc/logingroup. I hope I do now :)

Thanks very much!

Joachim

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Joachim,

Although I agree 100% that linking logingroup to group is THE way to solve this, I just wanted to point out that another solution would be to have the oracle user issue the following command
newgrp users
prior to placing the file(s) in testtt.
They could then
newgrp dba
to get back to their primary group.
That command changes the current GID & can be checked with the
id
command.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Joachim Weber_1]

Hi,

Thanks Volkmar, I didn't see your answer in the first place.

Jeff:
I agree that the newgrp command would be another way to do it. Unfortunately this needs to be a permanent setup and not a single one. Therefore I guess it might be better to create the link. Thanks anyway!


Regards,

Joachim