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I'm setting up permissions for a basic web server, but having some difficulty with starting the server with systemd.

In my job description, I set the user and group to "foo", as follows:

[Service]

WorkingDirectiory=/home/otheruser/Website
ExecStart=/home/otheruser/Website/bin/site -Dhttp.port=7000

User=foo
Group=foo

I recursively changed the group for the Website directory to foo, and made sure to give group execution rights to the site binary. When I still had issues, I chownd the whole directory for foo. Here's what ls -la displays in the bin directory:

drwxr-xr-x 2 foo foo  4096 Sep  5 16:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 foo foo  4096 Sep  5 18:07 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 foo foo  8502 Sep  5 16:13 site

Anyhow, I'm still getting this error when trying to start my systemd job:

foo.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /home/otheruser/Website/bin/site: Permission denied

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Nathan
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After tinkering around some more, I ended up discovering that some directories higher up in the tree (namely /home/otheruser) wasn't allowing execution by foo. While the Website directory had correct permissions, the above directories didn't, which was causing the failure.

Nathan
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