chown Groups NOT WORKING :(

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jjjustjjjay

Hey Everybody

I have read how to do this in manuals and Im almost positive I'm doing it right. I want a group to own the folder pub (/usr/pub) and all folder in it. I made the group pub and added the two users i wanted.

so I ran chown like this
Code: 
chown -R :pub /usr/pub

when i press enter i get no error. but when i try to change stuff in pub with the users i get permission denied.

Whats happening?

-Thanks
 
The format is # chown -R user:group /path/to/dir.

And make sure that 'group' is allowed to 'write'.

# chmod -R g+w /usr/pub
 
[cmd=""]chown -R :group /file[/cmd] is good syntax, but as sixtydoses above saith, you need to [cmd=""]chmod g+w /file[/cmd] as well (-R as needed).
 
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