On Thursday 24 May 2007 12:25, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
> > access the directory, and they may read MyNewFile, but they
> > may NOT change MyNewFile... they do not have write authority
> > to the file.
>
> I understand that much. But that's everyone in 'users' group. I want just
> one individual person to have read-only permission.
Assign the "individual" to a different group.
By default in opensuse every new user is added to the "users" group.
For the
one individual--- assign her to a restricted group. The "other" permission
bits will then apply to her... and anyone else *not* in the "users" group.
All of your users can have the "users" permissions (r w - ) and the "other"
permissions ( r - - ) will apply to her... and everyone else in groups other
than "users".
Another way to be more specific (and more flexible) is to use ACLs. If
you
open your suse help center and click on the
Reference==>Administration==>Access Control Lists in Linux , you will find
some really good into on setting up versatile and flexible authorization
schemes. Basically chapter 24 sections 1-5 for the printed manual.
I have been playing around with ACLs for a while... but really, must of
what
I need to get accomplished can be easily handled with the traditional unix
permission bits... take a go at it.
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Kind regards,
M Harris <><
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