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Mark Whidby <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Whidby <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:18:57 +0100
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On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 11:06 -0700, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> Hi
> I want to grant users to access (read/execute) some files and folders
> inside my home directory. Using chmod seems to be insufficient. For
> example I have made an executable file public for all
> 
> 
> [mahmood@tiger ~]$ chmod 777 test
> [mahmood@tiger ~]$ ls -l test
> -rwxrwxrwx. 1 mahmood mahmood 8026 Sep  2 12:18 test
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> However when another user tries to run, it receives permission error
> 
> 
> [anotherone@tiger ~]$ /home/mahmood/test
> -bash: /home/mahmood/test: Permission denied

You also need to give them permission to access/use your
home directory:

chmod o+x /home/mahmood

And you have given everybody write access to the script.
You only need to give read and execute permission:

chmod 755 test

And don't call a script "test"! It could lead to confusion with the
system command "test".

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