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Old 06-17-2005, 01:32 AM   #1
linuxvijayanand
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Post How to set password to a directory to access

I am looking for a advice how to set password for a folder to access. I am using RHEL WS 4 . Please help me out.
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Old 06-17-2005, 05:31 AM   #2
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Why aren't user permissions enough? You could create a group "myplace" and "chgrp -R myplace /my/place". Then add users to myplace to give them access
 
Old 06-17-2005, 05:53 AM   #3
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chmod 777 will not work, since the owner is still root. You need to do "chown youruser <file>". And then your bash script can delete it.
 
  


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