On Thu, March 4, 2010 2:00 pm, Sean Carolan wrote: > What am I doing wrong here? I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. > This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory > instead of /etc/group: > > [scarolan@watcher:/var/cvs]$ touch test.txt > touch: cannot touch `test.txt': Permission denied > > [scarolan@watcher:/var/cvs]$ ls -ld > drwxrwsr-x 4 cvs cvsgrp 4096 May 18 2008 . > > [scarolan@watcher:/var/cvs]$ id scarolan > uid=4002(scarolan) gid=4002(scarolan) > groups=10000(operations),10001(cvsgrp),4002(scarolan) One possibility is that test.txt already exists in that directory and that the group cvsgrp does not have write permissions to it. What is the output of 'ls -l /var/cvs/test.txt' ? Marko _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos