cannot access shared folder 1

[fayevalentine]

Hi, here is my problem

I have a folder under user1 home directory

/home/user1/wanttosharefolder

I created a group called 'histo'

I added user1 and user2 to group 'histo'

usermod -a -G histo user1
usermod -a -G histo user2

I changed permissions to whattosharefolder (this folder was initially created by root)

chown user1:histo whattosharefolder/

Finally I change permissions to folder to

chmod -R ugo+rw whattosharefolder/

but when I log in with user2 and try to write to /home/user1/whattosharefolder I get: permission denied message.


Did I do something wrong?
anything else?


Thanks in advance.

Regards.

 

[hoinz]

Just a guess:
In order to access /home/user1/whattosharefolder, user2 will first need permission to access /home/user1.
chmod ugo +x /home/user1

hope this helps

 

[SamBones]

Well, to limit access to the /home/user1 directory to only those in the group, it should be...

chmod [highlight #FCE94F]ug[/highlight] +x /home/user1

Execute permission is needed in the full path to access a subdirectory.