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Hello list: I have been reading the documentation on chmod
on the manual pages and from a few other sources, howver
I still have a couple of questions. Alright, first this is what I want to do, I have a directory
that belongs to ROOT and I want to make it readable, writable and executable to
another user however I don’t want to loose the permissions that root
already has in that directory. To illustrate, assume that I have a directory called DATA
that is owned by root, and I have a user called “admin” to whom I
want to give full access to DATA, however I DO NOT want to “admin”
give admin any other root like permissions outside of that folder, so that is
why I don’t want to add the “admin” user to the same group
that root belongs to (is it called “staff” or “root”?).
So I really don’t want to open the DATA directory public to ALL users
just to the “admin” user. So essentially what I want to do is for the
owner of the directory to give read, write and execute permissions to another
user (or group for that matter) for that directory. Second: say I have a user called TEST1 in the group called TEST1
(as it is often the case in Unix when you create a
user that it creates a group with the same name as the user). If user TEST1 is
the owner of the folder called DIR1 what is the difference of the outcome between
running: chmod 740 DIR1 and chmod 470 DIR1 I realize that one gives full access to the group and read
only access to the user and the other command does the opposite, but in a case
that TEST1 is the only user in TEST1 then does it make a difference above what
I do? What I am trying to get at is what is the purpose of trying to manipulate
the user access or the group access for that matter if you cant
specify a different user or group other than the owner’s DIRECTLY? I hope
that I made my point clear, I suppose that coming from
an active directory environment I am too used to being able to give a specific
user or group permissions without the administrator having to directly belong to
the group. Thanx for your
help in advanced. Francisco |