Hi,

I'm using RHEL 5.3 for web server.
I have to give read and execute permission to all the directories in /home/ who have group ownership of apache.
How would I do that? Can anybody help me?
I would be very thankful!

Regards,
Nitin

try
depending on what permissions everyone else must have.(ofcourse you would have added apache group to be the owners of the home directory as well.

cbtshare,

Thank you very much for your promt reply. Thanks very much.
But how would I check that all the directories under /home/ have group ownership of 'apache'?

Regards,
Nitin

Is ls -gl /home/ command is correct to check the group ownership of 'apache' under /home/ directory?

you can do that or ,if it is not apache, just do

No no no, I don't have to give 'apache' ownership to all directories under /home/ directory. I have to only give 'read' and 'execute' premission to all directories under /home directory who have 'apache' ownership.

then just ls -l and apply the permissions to the directories you want...its not hard.

Now suppose there are so many directories under /home/arproject/ then, how would I give 'read' and 'execute' permission to all those directories who have group ownership of 'apache'? One bye one it would take long time. Then is there any other method that I can give permissions through one command?

That part is easy:But, note that it is necessary to have at least "execute" permission for every parent directory in the path. For example, if you had a directory "/home/arproject/dir1/apachefiles", group "apache" would need to have "x" permission in /home, /home/arproject, and /home/arproject/dir1 in order to get to the apachefiles directory. If you can't accomplish that with the usual "user", "group", and "other" permissions, you would need to resort to ACLs to give the needed access to group "apache". See `man setfacls` and `man getfacls` for details.

Hi,

Ok! Now the problem has been solved. Thanks for your great help. I am marking this thread solved now.