[CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I have to solve an apparently simple permission problem, and I don't know if it's the sunny weather or birdsong, well... I just can't figure it out. Here goes. I have a bunch of users in a public library. Some are administrators: they handle the library, write the docs for everyone, etc.

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Barry Brimer
1) Members of the administrators group have unlimited read/write access to /home/pub and below. 2) Members of the agents group have read-only access to /home/pub and below. 3) All the others (that is, members of neither administrators and agents) have no access at all to /home/pub, not

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Christoph Neuhaus
Hi Niki, I have to solve an apparently simple permission problem, and I don't know if it's the sunny weather or birdsong, well... I just can't figure it out. Here goes. ... The thing is: I can't seem to formulate my problem in terms of user/group/others, as there are no owners, but two

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Kurian Thayil
Yes, as Barry said, use ACL for giving permission for group agents. The permission must be 770 and the group associated to /home/pub must be administrator. Then give acl rx (setfacl -m g:agent:rx /home/pub) to /home/pub. This should solve the issue. Make sure your filesystem is mounted with ACL

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Bo Lynch
On Tue, July 7, 2009 7:45 am, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I have to solve an apparently simple permission problem, and I don't know if it's the sunny weather or birdsong, well... I just can't figure it out. Here goes. I have a bunch of users in a public library. Some are administrators: they

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
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Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit : http://rofi.roger-ferrer.org/eiciel/?s=2 First of all, thanks for the instant replies. I took a peek at ACLs and how they work. But then, being a fervent adept of the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle (I started out with Slackware some eight years ago),

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Niki Kovacs a écrit : # chown jcpascot:agents /home/pub/jcpascot/ # chown nkovacs:agents /home/pub/nkovacs # chmod 0750 /home/pub/* Small mistake. This last line should go chmod 2750, so every file created in that directory will have the same group ('agents'). Niki

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 13:45 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: /home/pub and /home/echange Then, I created two groups, administrators and agents. Here's what I'd like to achieve (but I think my IQ is just below the required limit :oD): 1) Members of the administrators group have

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 17:23 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Where's the ENGLISH Version? John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 13:03, JohnSjse...@gmail.com wrote: Where's the ENGLISH Version? I see you use GMail, so you can try Message translation in the Labs feature of Gmail. I tried it, glanced at the translation, and it is quite decent. I does screw up the command-line listings, though. HTH,

Re: [CentOS] Permission problem

2009-07-07 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 13:18 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 13:03, JohnSjse...@gmail.com wrote: Where's the ENGLISH Version? I see you use GMail, so you can try Message translation in the Labs feature of Gmail. I tried it, glanced at the translation, and it is