-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Dec 2004 22:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rodolfo wrote: > >In the 'man chmod' page I couldn't find an answer to this question: > >how can the administrator give permission of a certain file or directory > >say, to user Paul but not to user Peter? > >E.g., suppose I'm the superuser and want to give Paul but not Peter > >the permission to read the directory '/'. > >With simply '# chmod -r /' I will prevent *both* Paul and Peter > >to access that directory. How can I instead specify my choice? > > Paul wrote: > >You can create a user-group with permissions to the extent you want > > Thanks, Paul: but how? > > Anne wrote: > >you can set any directory to be readable and/or writable > >by one of those specific groups. > > Thanks to you too, Anne: again, how? > > Rodolfo > Create groups in userdrake - for instance create group children create group teenagers go to Paul's account, add group children go to John's account. add group teenagers.
Go to the folder that you want children to access and change its group (you can do it in kdesu konqueror) to children and so on... Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBxLx2kFAvMr/nNX8RAlOqAJ9YTFnkiSUdaWb9MleiO95P9oiiIQCdF6gQ cb05pKKMfjSW2jkfNb+8g/s= =Ag3f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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