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
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
chmod o+x /home/mahmood
Does that imply they can see all my folders?
And don't call a script test! It could lead to confusion with the
system command test.
Thanks
Regards,
Mahmood
From: Mark Whidby mark.whi...@manchester.ac.uk
To: Mahmood Naderan
So I have created a groups and add myself and another user to this group
[mahmood@tiger ~]$ groups
mahmood sim
[anotherone@tiger ~]$ groups
anotherone sim
[mahmood@tiger ~]$ ls -l
drwxrws---. 14 mahmood sim 4096 May 17 14:10 sim-3.0.31
I didn't use
chmod -R 2770
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 12:35 -0700, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
So I have created a groups and add myself and another user to this
group
[mahmood@tiger ~]$ groups
mahmood sim
[anotherone@tiger ~]$ groups
anotherone sim
[mahmood@tiger ~]$ ls -l
drwxrws---. 14 mahmood sim 4096 May 17
One minor note,
Read isn't needed on the directories if the user/script/etc knows the path. If
the filename is known (no requirement to do a ls on the directory), then
execute is sufficient. If you give read, then all the filenames in your
directory are revealed (but not necessarily the
