Don: For more detailed control of access to disk resources than that offered by the time-tested POSIX owner, group, and others you need to use the Access Control List facilities offered by the 2.6 kernel series.
http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/ACL/linux-acl.html looks like pretty readable prose on the subject. 2008/10/6 Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 06 October 2008, Steve Holdoway wrote: >> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:17:10 +1300 >> >> Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Monday 06 October 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > > I have a folder of files that I want to show up in my shared folder >> > > for backing up but I only want the files to be read only when >> > > viewed from the symbolic link. >> > > >> > > Is this possible? >> > >> > Make a hard link to the folder, set the permissions of the copied >> > folder to read-only and symlink to it. Symlinks have the permissions >> > of the file they point to. >> > >> > I wonder if this will work? >> > >> > Phil. >> > >> > -- >> > Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New >> > Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 027 >> > 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - >> > business >> >> No. You can only softlink to a directory. >> >> ): > > cp -lpR /dir1 /dir2 > > I use this for backups against human error. > > Phil. > > -- > Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand > +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 027 663 4453 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - business > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
