user permissions

Hmmyah · 12-11-2003, 06:57 PM

i have a directory that only root has permission to access or execute, and i need to give a user on the system permission to modify/execute for all files and subdirectories of this directory.

What would be the root command to do this?

Nis · 12-11-2003, 07:12 PM

The chmod command is what your looking for. Now giving one particular use read/write/execute permissions is harder than what I know how to do but to give all users r/w/x permissions run 'chmod ugo+rwx directory/ -R'. The ogu is for user(owner)/group/others and rwx is, as above, read/write/execute. Hope this works for you!

Hmmyah · 12-11-2003, 07:29 PM

is there any way to wipe who the user and group is and assign it a new group and user, so that i can just have write and execute abilities by that new user??

Nis · 12-11-2003, 07:47 PM

Sure. First 'chown username.usergroup directory -R' and then 'chmod 700 directory/ -R'. The 700 is octal for the permissions for the command. The 7 is for the owner of the file/directory, the first 0 is for the group, and the last 0 is for all others. This should give only that one user r/w/x permissions on that directory and all files in it.

Azmeen · 12-11-2003, 08:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Hmmyah
is there any way to wipe who the user and group is and assign it a new group and user, so that i can just have write and execute abilities by that new user??

Code:

groupadd special
usermod -G special username
chown -R username:special /the_directory
chmod ug+rwx /the_directory
chmod o-rwx /the_directory

At least that's how I'd do it... not that I'm saying it's the only right way to do it... or that if it's even 100% right at all