Hello, as you can see I'm new.

I've check various sites and the man pages as well and I'm still having an issue. I've also asked my professor at school and all she has told me was to make my computer help me?? This is for an assignment I have to do.

Certain groups have access to certain folders/files, while others have limited or no access at all.

Example..

Two members are members of the ABB group, and their usernames are ABB1 and ABB2. There are multiple groups and 2 users for each group.

Members of the ABB group have a folder in which all their files go in, but members of the RTT group are also allowed full access to those files, and members of group UDD are only allowed Read access to those files.

I'm not to sure on how to go about that. Linux is very confusing to me because my teacher just expects us to know everything, and it's only a second semester 1st year course.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The important thing to remember is that file permissions are read/write/execute for owner,group,everyone.

So if a file by the name of mymidgetporn.avi has permissions of rwxr-x---

and its ownership is Myusername Users

This means that the owner is Myusername and the group ownership is Users

Let's break the permissions down now. The above can be broken into 3 sections:
Owner: rwx
Group: r-x
Everyone: ---

That would mean that the user Myusername can read, write, an execute the file.

The second set is "r-x" indicates that the group "Users" can read and execute the file, but cannot write to it, overwrite it, or delete it.

And finally, nobody outside the group can read, execute, or write to this file.

Now....to set file permissions, do some reading on the chmod command.

Hope this helps.

Asking for help with schoolwork isn't allowed.

try man chmod
man chgrp
man chown

this is probabbly what your teacher meant by make the computer help you

@Total-MAdMaN
Actually, asking for help/pointers IS allowed, as long as the poster shows they've made an effort. What we don't do is just hand out solutions...