Re: Permissions Question & Re: Permissions advice needed

2007-01-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You could configure sudo to give him access to run that one >> command as root. > One has to be very careful about giving out such access! > root has much power. Hence "sudo", w

RE: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-09 Thread Brett Davidson
D] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Davidson Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2007 8:53 a.m. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FW: Permissions advice needed. -Original Message- From: Malcolm Kay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 6:03 p.m. To: freebsd

RE: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-09 Thread Brett Davidson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 7:42 p.m. To: Brett Davidson Subject: Re: Permissions advice needed. Brett, Why don't you make a symbolic link to that file. You may set read, write and execute permissions if you wish... doesn't matter. The users will be able t

FW: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-09 Thread Brett Davidson
-Original Message- From: Malcolm Kay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 6:03 p.m. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brett Davidson Subject: Re: Permissions advice needed. On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote: > I have a curious problem. > >

Re: Permissions Question & Re: Permissions advice needed

2007-01-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make sure I wasn't > overlooking something silly. > Thanks! Too much work for the one copying unless he has a script do it maybe as a cron job. On 9 Jan 2007 08:43:11, "Brett Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Subject: Permissions advice needed.) > > I have a

Re: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-09 Thread Jay Chandler
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:02 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: Why does he need access to aliases though? For mail program purposes? -Garrett I think you may have mixed up two threads with very similar subject lines. I see no reference to aliases in this thread. (Confusing isn

Re: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-08 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:02 pm, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote: > >> I have a curious problem. > >> > >> I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and > >> gid so they can run it. > > > > A user does not need to own a file t

Re: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote: I have a curious problem. I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and gid so they can run it. A user does not need to own a file to be able to run it. All they need is execute permission. So what is t

Re: Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-08 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:13 am, Brett Davidson wrote: > I have a curious problem. > > I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and gid > so they can run it. A user does not need to own a file to be able to run it. All they need is execute permission. So what is the real problem? > HOWE

Permissions advice needed.

2007-01-08 Thread Brett Davidson
I have a curious problem. I need an executable file to be owned by a user's uid and gid so they can run it. HOWEVER, I don't want them to be able to modify or delete the file and/or it's permissions. Another program will do that. This, under standard Unix permissions, is a tad difficult. :-) ACL