Look at /etc/group and then read man group. On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Mark Dohojda wrote: > Hello :) > > I have a quick question. I understand how permissions work in Linux, > but what I don't understand is how to assign permissions to a specific > group. For example let say that there is group name Joe and Harry. I > want Joe to only have access to the home directory (/home/Joe) but I > want Harry to have access to the home directory (/home/Harry) and also > to /home/files directory. Also I want another group to have access to > all but /sbin directory. > > Is there any way to do this? All ever see in chmod command is user, > group, other... but that is not very specific. > > Thank you > Marek > Best wishes - Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street, Las Cruces,NM (505) 524-3303 -