I am currently messing around on my linux system and now i have the following situation.

The directory /srv/http has the following permissions set:

drwxrwxr-x 2 root httpdev  80 Jun 13 11:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root    152 Mar 26 13:56 ../
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root httpdev   8 Jun 13 11:48 index.html*

I have created the group httpdev before with the command:

groupadd httpdev

and added my user sighter with:

gpasswd -a sighter httpdev

Then i have set the permissions as above using the chown and chmod commands.

But now i am not allowed to modify the index.html file or create a new file, as user sighter ,with touch like that:

<sighter [bassment] ~http> touch hallo.php
touch: cannot touch `hallo.php': Permission denied

What do I understand wrong. I was expecting that i can do what i want there then the group has all the rights.

The following Output is for your in formation.

<sighter [bassment] ~http> cat /etc/group | grep sighter
...
httpdev:x:1000:sighter
...

The used linux-distro is archlinux.

Thanks for all answers :)

greetz Sascha