Adding a user to a group I have a user and a group called `awe` on my server. It's home directory is `/home/awe` I created a new user called `c37`. I then ran the following command (as root) `usermod -a -G awe c37` Now when I'm logged in as `c37` and type `groups` I get: `c37 awe` But yet when I run the following commands as `c37`: `cd /home/awe/ ls -l` `/bin/ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied` Why is this? I thought adding a user to that group would give me permission to access everything that the user `awe` has access to?

By default, home directories are created with permissions set only for the user, not for the group. Running the following will allow you to access that folder:


sudo chmod g+rX ~awe


The command `chmod` alters permissions on files and folders. The command above adds (`+`) read (`r`) and access directory (`X`) to anyone on the file/folder's (`~awe`) owner's main group (`g`).