-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 18:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the 'man chmod' page I couldn't find an answer to this question: > how can the administrator give permissions of a certain file or directory > say, to user Paul but not to user Peter? > E.g., suppose I'm the superuser and want to give Paul but not Peter > the permission to read the directory '/'. > With simply '# chmod -r /' I will prevent *both* Paul and Peter > to access that directory. How can I instead specify my choice? > > Thanks for any help, > Rodolfo
Probably the easiest way would be to create user groups and allocate users appropriately, then you can set any directory to be readable and/or writable by one of those specific groups. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBxHxbkFAvMr/nNX8RAk/iAJ9x0NRa+K6OBoPff1levVgym6JPLACgnhx3 RZAGrhYUqQaGJbb2ReIlQQU= =L/g+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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