I am new to Linux and need to add user access to a particular directory on a Linux server (SUSE 9.1).
Example: userBFA
Directory: server01/SMF
I am able to access the directory via telnet however I do not know the commands to add the user. userBFA needs read\write access to the SMF directory.

Please let me know if any additional information is needed.

Thank you!!!

You can use "useradd" command to add user's to your system. If you type "man useradd" you can get details of how to use the command.

You can give user access to a directory in several ways: As owner of the directory, as a member of the group that has access to the directory or using acls. You need to decide how you want to do it before you create the user as the group(s) you make the user a member of are important unless you make the user the owner of the directory. (Making the user the owner of the directory is OK if that is the only user that is going to access it but if others are using it then you don't want to do that.)

From what you wrote I gather the directory already exists. If so run "ls -ld server01/SMF" to see the permissions, ownership and group. (Note the path you list isn't "fully qualified" - in Linux paths start with / e.g. /server01/SMF or /home/server01/SMF or /opt/server01/SMF - since you listed a relative path I'm not sure what the full path is.)
You should see something like:
drwxr-xr-x 5 billybob users 4096 Apr 19 10:09 server01/SMF

The first field tells you it is a directory and has permissions (mode) 755. (Type "man chmod" to see information setting permissions/mode.) The 3rd field shows the owner (billybob) and the fourth shows the group (users). Type "man chown" and "man chgrp" for information changing owner and group.

ACLs are a bit more advanced and if not currently in use you probably don't want to mess with them.

The user is already added and is a member of the domain. What I am getting stumped on is how to specify adding a particular user to have permissions. From what I have read, I understand how to give permissions but I haven't found anything to show me how to give permissions to a specific user. If I wanted to give billybob (as an example name you used) permission to this directory, I wouldn't know how to go about it. I am used to working with Windows servers so this is a learning curve for me.

I have been looking code up and I can only find code to specify for "all users" and not a specific user.

I appreciate your help and I hope you understand what I am trying to accomplish here.

"member of the domain". It sounds like you're talking about Samba setup (sharing files out to Windows from UNIX or Linux)?

I figured it out. Thanks for your help!

Please post your solution. That way if anyone else has same issue in future they can find what you did to resolve it.