Quick users/groups question
 

I have a web box I just reinstalled redhat 9 on. in the /var/www/html folder there are different folders for different clients. Each client has a login (e.g. bob, linda).

I only want bob to be able to access the bob folder and down and linda to be able to access the linda folder and down. However I want my login to be able to all of those folders.

bob and linda also have their own groups. I made a group called htmladmin.

Now if I chmod -R 750 bob only and chgrp -R bob bob and chown -R bob bob, bob should be able to access only his folder and linda won't be able to.

If I add the group bob and linda to the htmladmin group and then make my primary group htmladmin, I should be able to access both of their directories, correct?

Thanx

Nico

I think you have to add yourself to the bob and linda group. Primary group is meaningless; you can temporarily change it (in effective sense) with newgrp command.

If you give owners full permission to their files/folders (chown -R <user>) and then make htmladmin the group (chgrp -R <group>) -- make sure your user is a member), then it should all work. If you were to do that, I would do chmod -R 770, which would give the owner full control, and the group (which you belong to), but no one else would be able to view anything.

That's my suggestion.