Re: Groups: Howto and New?

[Sean <snmjohnson@iclub.org>]

If you just want access from your user account and root, just change the group of the
folder to the same group as your user account & type (as root) chmod g+rw
foldername.  If you have a bunch of user accounts that you want to be able to access
the folder, just change the folder's group to  something like users, and then add all
the users accounts you want to have access to this folder to the users group in
/etc/passwd.  And of course then do the chmod thing just as above.

Sean

J Horacio MG wrote:

> I have a directory within /home (ok, probably not the right place for
> it) which I use to store several documents and other stuff;  I'd like to
> be able to read and write to it just from my user and from root, so I
> thought of making a new group and changing that directory and files group
> permissions to the newly created group.  Is this a right way to do it?
>
> Also, how can I have information about groups (other than the one
> provided in /etc/groups)?
>
> TIA
> --
> Horacio
> homega@vlc.servicom.es
> Valencia - ESPAÑA
>
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