granting permissions to a few users in a group

grondar69 · 06-16-2006, 03:09 PM

Hi all,

Is there any way to set permissions so that only 2 users of a group have full control of a directory and the rest of the group have none?

Thanks in advance

ilikejam · 06-16-2006, 04:24 PM

Hi.

Nope. You'll have to create another group with those two users as members.

Dave

grondar69 · 06-16-2006, 05:20 PM

Thanks, I've got that working. Now my problem is that the permissions on the directory aren't carrying though to the files. I did a chmod 6770 on the directory and I want that to carry through to any files that either user in the group creates/modifies.

Tinkster · 06-17-2006, 02:21 AM

chmod -R <perms> <dir> should do the trick.

Cheers,
Tink

osor · 06-17-2006, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grondar69

Hi all,

Is there any way to set permissions so that only 2 users of a group have full control of a directory and the rest of the group have none?

Thanks in advance

You either have to use something like ACLs or give those two users secondary groups.

grondar69 · 06-20-2006, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster

chmod -R <perms> <dir> should do the trick.

Cheers,
Tink

thanks, that worked fine for changing the files currently in the directory, but any new files created after that don't have the same permissions.

ethics · 06-20-2006, 10:49 AM

you can use umask for setting future permissions

grondar69 · 06-22-2006, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by osor

You either have to use something like ACLs or give those two users secondary groups.

The ACL method did exactly what I wanted, I was able to set permissions for specific users in a group without creating a secondary group for each user. Thanks for all the help.