Ron Kirschner wrote:
> I know a user can belong to more than 1 group by adding him to a list in
> /etc/group, but a Client of mine has users set up in 2 groups. We wants one
> of the groups to have rwx permissions, but the second only gets read. Is
> there a way to assign multiple groups to a directory? I thought I could use
> a symbolic link and give it a different group, but it wouldn't let me!
>

Depends. If the OS supports extended permissions (acl's), then yes, you
may be able to set that kind of access restriction. I have yet to even
look at OpenServer 6, so I don't know if that sort of thing has been added.

See http://aplawrence.com/Basics/perms.html



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