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I have a lot of music that I want to share with and on all the accounts on my Ubuntu Linux box. I created one in /usr/share/usrmusic changed the user and groups to userx:users and the permissions to

drwxrw-rw- 3 userx users 4096 Oct 26 12:20 usrmusic

under a different user I can not get into the directory

It is now highlighted for whatever reason and then when I went into a different account to try and get to it it will not let me in saying I don't have permissions 

usera@bw:/usr/share$ 
usera@bw:/usr/share$ cd usrmusic
bash: cd: usrmusic: Permission denied
usera@bw:/usr/share$

if I go su I can of course all permissions are set to drwxrw-rw- 312 userx users on everything in the directory and sub-directories

I added usera to the users group and still I cannot access it at all, and how do I get the directories to NOT be highlighted like it is now an executable directory ?

it shouldn't be this hard!

Warren Hill
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Permissions are set to:

    drwxrw-rw- 3 userx users 4096 Oct 26 12:20 usrmusic

Where:

  • d means directory
  • rwx means that the owner (userx) has full access to the directory
  • first rw- means that any other member of the group (users) can read from or write to the directory but cannot make it current directory using the cd command
  • second rw- means that any other user can read from or write to the directory but cannot make it current directory using the cd command

To make the directory accessible ("executable") for others, you can try

    sudo chmod g+x usrmusic

for users group members, or

    sudo chmod go+x usrmusic

for anyone.

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