Marc ---------- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 ---------- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap"
>>> J Horacio MG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/18 12:51 PM >>> > I have a directory within /home (ok, probably not the right place for > it) which I use to store several documents and other stuff; I'd like to > be able to read and write to it just from my user and from root, so I > thought of making a new group and changing that directory and files group > permissions to the newly created group. Is this a right way to do it? Just make sure the owner is your user and disable all rights for group and other. root can read anything, anytime, any- where, regardless of privileges. The day you decide to let *another* normal user access the files, then you can start worrying about groups and group access. > Also, how can I have information about groups (other than the one > provided in /etc/groups)? Assuming that the /etc/groups file supports '#' comments at the end of a line (I'm not certain that it does), I would put additional information about the group after a comment and then write a utility that parses the /etc/groups file and prints the group information. That's pretty general, if you don't get any better suggestions, I would be happy to elaborate. Marc
