With Red Hat linux (and derivatives) useradd automatically creates a group of the same name as the user. Its easy to permit access to a single user using chgrp and chmod if you are the file owner. If you don't use Red Hat then perhaps you can convince your sysadmin to create a group for each user manually. At least then you don't have to continually bug him/her. (Of course a BOFH would balk at this delegation of power :)
Now allowing multiple users to have access is a fish of another colour. I'm not sure if there is a way to avoid the sysadmin on that one. Kerry. On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 14:32, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Rex Johnston wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 10:07, Steve Brorens wrote: > > > > > > > BTW I'd go so far as to say that the Windows (NT/W2K/XP/.NET) NTFS permission > > > > structure is overall far superior to Linux <ducks flames>, BUT the > > > > > > How exactly ? > > > > Assume that one non-root user wants to give r|w access to a file|dir to > > another one _only_. How do you solve this with standard Unix perms ? > > (I've hit this problem several times, happens more often then one would > > think). > > To make myself clear: I want a solution not a workaround. > > I could invent myself several kludges but AFAIK there is no solution > other than begging the sysadmin for _each_ such case. The user can > _not_ solve the problem by himself. > > Cheers, > -- > Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Computer Systems Manager > University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
