Hi Bascule,
I didn't really meant that a group can own a file (even if the man chgrp
says : chgrp - change group ownership). Sorry if I didn't express
myself correctly. I just meant that there are permissions to a file that
are specific to a particular group.
I might be wrong, but I don't think it's possible to make a group member
of another group.
And I also think that this term "ownership" could be misleading. I
rather think about a file as being a member of a group.
Sorry again if I wasn't clear enough.
Flupke
bascule wrote:
>
> hi flupke,
> your answer to john's post is interesting because it says that a group
> can own files, i always assumed that an 'owner' had to be a user (though
> i never saw that written anywhere), can a group also be a member of
> another group like a user can?
>
> bascule
>
> flupke wrote:
> >
> > I think the best way to make what you want would be to create a new
> > group dedicated to the files shared by fred and tom. Lets call it
> > fredandtom (groupadd fredandtom).
> > Make Both fred and tom member of this new group (by adding "fred,tom" to
> > the entry fredandtom in the /etc/group file).
> > Then make the fredandtom group the owner of /home/shared (chgrp
> > fredandtom /home/shared). From now on, the files in /home/shared whose
> > group is fredandtom and are group writable (chmod g+w file) will be
> > accessible to both tom and fred. But the files whose group is fred or
> > tom will be only accessible to respectively fred or tom.
> >
> > HTH
> > Flupke
> >
> > John Rye wrote:
> > >
> > > I have two users call them 'fred' and 'tom'
> > >
> > > I need for these two users to be able to share files (usually text).
> > >
> > > Both users are members of their own groups named for their usernames.
> > >
> > > How should I go about this?
> > > 'fred' may NOT have access to 'tom's files and 'tom' may NOT have
> > > access to 'fred's files.
> > >
> > > I intention is to create a directory named say: /home/shared or similar
> > > in which these two users can drop the exchange files.
> > >
> > > As I remember if I make both of these users members of the same group
> > > the each is able to 'see' what the other is doing? or has in her
> > > directory. That is not an option in this case..
> > >
> > > Suggestions are most welcome.
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
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