very simple file permissions question

[bentaylor]

Hello,
Basically - how do I get linux to 're-read' my permissions when i've added myself to a group without having to log off and on again?
I wanted access to webfiles so I did

groupadd webmodifiers
chgrp -R webmodifiers /srv/www/htdocs
usermod -Awebmodifiers ben

then, user 'ben' should be able to write to htdocs, but can't until I log off and log on again.
Any ideas?
Ta

[Nvzabl]

chmod command
chmod 777 the dir or file
ex: chmod 777 /srv/www/htdocs

this method is called the absolute method it changes all the permissions at once. 777 gives u read/write/execute permissions to the file or dir.

[smolloy]

this method is called the absolute method it changes all the permissions at once. 777 gives u read/write/execute permissions to the file or dir.

This sounds like a bad bad bad idea. You don't want to have rwx permissions for everyone on a web server -- that's just asking for trouble.

The original poster was asking how to "refresh" the permissions without restarting his login session, not how to give the world rwx permissions to his server!

[Cabhan]

Try running the 'newgrp' command with no parameters. If that doesn't work, you can try 'newgrp -'.

Otherwise, the best solution may be to just logout and back in.

[mitto]

Hi,

Check the below mentioned URL:

http://forums.linuxwebadmin.info/ind...opic,34.0.html

if you are already logged in and you made some changes in environment variable in /etc/profile, $HOME/.bash_profile, /etc/bashrc, $HOME/.bashrc etc
and you don't want to relogin for change effect, than run these all script with command "source"

#source /etc/profile

It will refresh your currunt environment..........