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I’m wondering how two users can view/edit the same files. I have them but in a group, and the owners of the file are root:group, yet nobody in that group can save to the file. They can all open it file. I have 775 for the file and folder permissions. Any ideas?

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Try 6 instead of 7? Kind of odd. When i want full read/write permissions i usually do chmod 666

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Did you make them have the same primary group or is it a secondary group? If a secondary group they will need to use the newgrp command to switch which group they are behaving as in order to work on the file together.

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Because they can all open but not write that means that the “5” is what is being picked up and not the 7 in the group slot. So the group is not being recognized.

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Funny enough, I’m dealing with someone in person with this problem right this second.

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Yeah it’s taking the 5 (read and execute, but not write). Try changing that and see how it goes.

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Well yeah, he can just open world permissions but presumably his goal is to lock it down to just the group.

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777 for everything! Just joking… Knew a guy that did that on all of his servers, made things simple he said…

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Simple indeed. Like DOS simple.

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I didn’t say to open it up to everyone -_-

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In the voice of David Slade “Ya’ kinda did…”

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That’s what I told him too. Showed him how to use permissions. Don’t know if he did.

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I got it actually! I just needed to close WinSCP, and then log back in. Then it worked. Took me two hours to figure that out, but at least it works! Thanks for the help guys!