permission woes

[Red Squirrel]

I'm trying to give access to a directory for a regular user to write to. The only way afaik to do t his is that the user has write access to every parent folder too. Is there a way around this? It's just not viable to do this. I only want the user to have access to that one folder. i made the user the owner and it's chmodded 775 and it just wont work. Get permission denied when try to create a file.

 

[degibson]

Make sure the path from root to the folder has read and execute access for all, or for the user's group. e.g. 555 on /export, 555 on /export/home, 755 or 775 on /export/home/user.

 

[Nothinman]

degibsion is right, you don't need write access to all of the parent directories otherwise / would have to be 777 for /tmp, /home/username, etc to work.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah realized when I was testing I was logging in and the user's shell is /dev/null for security reasons (not normally a user that logs in - just a service account) so when I tried I was still as another user.

Got it sorted out now.