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I have a about 10 folders to which i want to grant/deny access to several users. I know I can do this using group permissions. But I have a constraint which prevents me from using groups in this setup...
So, is there a way how I can assign/unassign permissions based on USERS only. like how we do it in Windows World by using the Security tab and adding users to which we need to grant/deny permissions...
Linux Server with NFS v3 will grant/deny access rights to NFS clients based on the AUX GID's of the user.
But, a Solaris NFS v3 server takes in to consideration only the PRI GID on the user and ignores whatever rights he has been granted/denied based on his AUX GIDs
I think what you need is ACL, which is supported as an option by most filesystems, provided your kernel was compiled with the appropriate modules enabled.
However, my experience tells me that permissions like this quickly become an unmanageable mess, and actually most administrators are even too lazy to correctly handle unix-type (so much simpler) rights.
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