User Permission Overwrite Group Permissin on Linux

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

This is a tricky question when my customer ask me why he can’t change certain on his home folder.
Said for an example:
I have a username: john with primary group finance running on one of the Linux server.
$id john
uid=1008(john) gid=1002(finance) groups=1002(finance)
$pwd
/home/john
$ls -l aug2008.txt
-r-rw-r– 1 john finance [...]

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How To Add Linux User To Group

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

All Linux users have a user ID and a group ID and a unique numerical identification number called a userid (UID) and a groupid (GID) respectively. Groups can be assigned for a single user or a group or users together for a common security, privilege and access purpose.
/etc/group is an ASCII file which defines the [...]

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