[NTLUG:Discuss] Permissions

[Bobby L. Sanders]

Kathleen Weaver wrote:

> > I have a hard time believing the Novell has developed the telepathic OS.
> > You're going to have to tell the machine exactly what to do no matter
> > what. In this case that means telling it what directories belong to who.
> >
> well, actually for Netware, all I have to do is tell it that teacher A has
> read permissions of all students in her group.  Apparently as you said
> Linux does.  I just go into Syscon, in that group, and a few kyeboard
> clicks and I'm done.
>
>  Kathleen
>  --------------

I seem to recall that you can do a similar thing with Red Hat control-panel
(from X Windows, open a shell (xterm), su root, if necessary, and do

# control-panel

)  -- at least in 4.2 -- don't know whether 6.0 continued control-panel.  If
not, I bet there is some way to do this with LinuxConf.

Bobby