Delete Access

sjblasko82 · 01-13-2005, 04:55 PM

Is it at all possible to give one user read and write access and keep them from deleting that file?

At the same time is it possible to give another user full permission (even delete) to that same file?

Just curious.

Tinkster · 01-13-2005, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sjblasko82
Is it at all possible to give one user read and write access and keep them from deleting that file?

Yes.

Quote:

At the same time is it possible to give another user full permission (even delete) to that same file?

And yes, again.

Cheers,
Tink

sjblasko82 · 01-13-2005, 05:32 PM

How would you go about doing this??

Tinkster · 01-13-2005, 05:49 PM

If you e.g. had a directory
/share/documents ...

You have user1 and user2

Create a group editors.
Add user2 to editors..

chown user1:editors /share/documents
chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o-rwx /share/documents

create the document that user2 should be
able to edit but not delete in /share/documents
e.g. as user1
date > /share/documents/some_file
chgrp editors /share/documents/some_file
chmod g=rw /share/documents/some_file

Cheers,
Tink

sjblasko82 · 01-13-2005, 06:24 PM

That works wonderfully on Linux side. The problem I am having now is the that I am trying to use a Samba server that has the same restrictions. Unfortunately, even if I give read only permission to the files and folders on Linux side (which works) I can still delete those files on the Windows side. Is there a way around this problem?