I have 3 users: admin
with sudo, and two normal users – user1
and user2
.
user2
is under user1
group.
There is a folder fold1
as /home/user1/fold1
which is under the group user1
with read and write permissions.
Now I want to create a symbolic link to this above folder at a location
/home/user2/fold1
so that user2
can access and write the same folder.
All I have been trying is the following from the admin
user:
su admin
sudo ln -s /home/user1/fold1 /home/user2/fold1
sudo chown user1:user1 /home/user2/fold1
I have also tried sudo chown user2:user1 /home/user2/fold1
, but not working.
But anyway, user2
cannot access this folder. Only a cross overlay is showing on the link from user2
account.
What could be wrong here?
Thanks in advance.
Best Answer
Since it is a soft link,
user2
will have to have access to the whole path of/home/user1/fold1
with at least execution right (x
).(you should do a
chmod g+x /home/user1
)