Ubuntu, user can't write to a directory and I don't see why not.
- by Peter
I've got a directory, /var/www/someProject/backup/mysql,
and I want the user mysql to write to it. Each time I try to write to it with the mysql user, I get a "can't read/write" error. Yet the directory is 777 as you can see here:
drwxrwxrwx 2 aUser users 4096 2010-03-17 17:14 mysql
I also tried to chown the directory to mysql:mysql, just like…