[NTLUG:Discuss] Permissions

J. Reeves Hall reeves at earthling.net
Thu Sep 3 11:35:45 CDT 1998


Kathleen Weaver wrote:

> I'm having a "concept" problems with permissions.  I'm used to Novell, and
> I want to do something similar.
>
> I want to set up my teacher group to have full access to the student home
> directories.  How do I do that without giving students access to each
> directory.  I know how to do that in Novell.

chgrp teachers joes_dir    #teachers group has access
chown joe joes_dir            # so does joe
chmod 770 joes_dir           #but nobody else

-Reeves

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