problem chainging permission to file

mia_tech · 07-25-2009, 01:38 AM

guys, I have a partition on my main drive that I use for storage of docs, which I created under root, and I mount under /media/storage but now I'm trying to give another user rwx permision with

Code:

sudo chmod -R o+rwx /media/storage

but when I do

Code:

ls -l /media/storage

is still reflecting the old permission is like I'm not actually modifying anything and I'm not getting any errors

Thanks

jdkaye · 07-25-2009, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mia_tech

guys, I have a partition on my main drive that I use for storage of docs, which I created under root, and I mount under /media/storage but now I'm trying to give another user rwx permision with

Code:

sudo chmod -R o+rwx /media/storage

but when I do

Code:

ls -l /media/storage

is still reflecting the old permission is like I'm not actually modifying anything and I'm not getting any errors

Thanks

can you show us what the results are of

Code:

ls -l /media/storage

and

Code:

ls -l /media

cheers,
jdk

mia_tech · 07-25-2009, 09:39 AM

I got it fixed now, but my question is: if I wanted to give rwx permission to another user other than the owner of that file... is

Code:

sudo chmod o+rwx /file/file

the only alternative, because that gives rwx to all users

jdkaye · 07-25-2009, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mia_tech

I got it fixed now, but my question is: if I wanted to give rwx permission to another user other than the owner of that file... is

Code:

sudo chmod o+rwx /file/file

the only alternative, because that gives rwx to all users

No, if the other user is in the same group as the owner then

Code:

chmod ug+rwx {file/folder name}

will do the job.
cheers,
jdk

jschiwal · 07-28-2009, 04:11 AM

You can use ACLs to give finer controls to permissions. See the man pages for setfacl and getfacl.
You would need to give the user rx permissions on the directory for that user to be able to access a file inside.