Look at /etc/group and then read man group.
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Mark Dohojda wrote:
> Hello :)
>
> 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.
>
> Is there any way to do this? All ever see in chmod command is user,
> group, other... but that is not very specific.
>
> Thank you
> Marek
>
Best wishes
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