I have created a folder called /home/projects
, to do this I had to use sudo mkdir /home/projects
because it's inside the home folder.
Initially the folder had these permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 29 16:53 projects
I then added two users user1 and user2 to the group developers.
I then changed the owner of the folder to user1 because I read that sometimes if you're not the owner of the folder changes might not work. I did this with:
sudo chown -R user1 /home/projects
I then changed the group with ownership of the folder (while logged in as user1) to developers like this:
sudo chgrp -R developers /home/projects
The output of ls -la
is:
drwxr-xr-x 4 user1 developers 4096 Dec 29 16:45 projects
Both users are part of the group, I checked with:
groups {username}
Despite all of this, user2 still cannot create folders or files inside /home/projects
. The user can enter the folder and view everything inside of it, but nothing else.
The strangest thing about this is that user2 was able to create/upload and delete files and folders inside /home/projects
for about a week, before Ubuntu suddenly started giving him permission denied errors.
If I set user2 as direct owner of the folder, the user is able to do everything, but of course then the other one can't.
What is going on here?
EDIT:
User Zeta suggested I give the group w
access, so now the folder is like this:
drwxrwxr-x 4 user1 developers 4096 Dec 29 16:45 projects
Instead of a permission denied I get this error:
mkdir /home/projects/New directory: received failure with description 'Failure'
Operating system is Gnu/Linux (Ubuntu 18.10)