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Old 02-15-2008, 05:19 PM
Andreas Kohl
 
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Default Re: unix permissions

Tony Lawrence schrieb:
> Tony Lawrence wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>

>
> Os 6 does have acl's:
> http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/SEC_admin/ssC.dac.acls.html
>

it should be available with osr6 MP1

Andreas Kohl
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