$ chmod -R 2770 /home/mahmood/test Excuse me how can I revert back this command?
Regards, Mahmood ________________________________ From: Earl Ramirez <earlarami...@gmail.com> To: Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahm...@yahoo.com> Cc: "scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov" <scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 10:24 PM Subject: Re: How a user can execute a file from anothe user On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 11:06 -0700, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Hi > I want to grant users to access (read/execute) some files and folders > inside my home directory. Using chmod seems to be insufficient. For > example I have made an executable file public for all > > > [mahmood@tiger ~]$ chmod 777 test > [mahmood@tiger ~]$ ls -l test > -rwxrwxrwx. 1 mahmood mahmood 8026 Sep 2 12:18 test > Are all this taking place on the same system? You can create a group and put all the users in that group, this way they will only have access to that particular directory. Then do the following: $ groupadd pubgrp $ chown -R mahmood.pubgrp /home/mahmood/test $ chmod -R 2770 /home/mahmood/test > > > > > However when another user tries to run, it receives permission error > > > [anotherone@tiger ~]$ /home/mahmood/test > -bash: /home/mahmood/test: Permission denied > > > > What is the solution. > > > Regards, > Mahmood > -- Kind Regards Earl Ramirez GPG Key: http://trinipino.com/PublicKey.asc
