Would the following work? The /home/Joe directory could belong to the Joe group, while the /home/Harry directory could belong to the Harry group. You could then limit access to the directories to their respective groups by granting no access to other, but allowing the owner group whatever access was appropriate to it. The /home/files directory could be owned by a files group, of which Harry, but not Joe, would be a member; and protection for the /home/files directory would, as for the Joe and Harry directories, allow no access to other, but whatever was appropriate for group. The /sbin directory could be assigned to yet another group (sbin?) of which you would need to be a member to have access. The folks that you don't want to get into /sbin would not be a member of the sbin group. -- Phil Helms Community College Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > I have a quick question. I understand how permissions work in Linux, > but what I don't understand is how to assign permissions to a specific > group. For example let say that there is group name Joe and Harry. I > want Joe to only have access to the home directory (/home/Joe) but I > want Harry to have access to the home directory (/home/Harry) and also > to /home/files directory. Also I want another group to have access to > all but /sbin directory.
