Re: Directory Permissions

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Ben Bettin wrote:

> I'm running Sarge and have two 250 gb drives.  One has my system
> installed on it, the other is mounted as /backup.  I intended to use
> /backup to...well...back things up :)
>
> How do I grant certain users access to /backup?  Right now it's only
> accessible to the root user.  I've read through a few man-pages, and I
> get the impression that I need to add the users to the directory's
> group....but I'm not sure how to do that.  Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>  
Create a group (or use an existing one - see "/etc/group"), like so:
 addgroup backupers

Then add your users to that group; either edit "/etc/group" or "adduser 
person backupers".

Change the perms on the directory, like so:

chown -R root.backupers /backup
chmod -r g+rw /backup

Now all members in the "backupers" group have read/write access to 
"/backup".

--
Kent