[KLUG Members] permissions query

[Bruce Smith]

> > > Or, from the terminal (logged in as eric having set www back to 770):
> > > 
> > > [eric at sonyc ~]$ cd /var/www
> > > bash: cd: /var/www: Permission denied
> > 
> > What does 'grep users /etc/group' show?
> > 
> > What does 'cd /var ; ls -l | grep www' show?
> 
> This line come up with cd /var; ls -l: [full name of group is
> apache_users]
> 
> drwxrwx---   8 root    apache_users 4096 Mar 22 19:18 www
> 
> And
> [root at sonyc var]# grep apache_users /etc/group
> apache_users:x:501:eric,root

And the output from the command "groups" ?

Did you just add yourself to the apache_users group?
If so, you need to logout completely & login again.

 - BS