Chadley Wilson wrote:
Greetings,
This is my first real useradmin job, :)
have a look at the ls output below, I have many users on the system and the all access the pro5 directory, so made it aacessable to users, and all users are mebers of the users group. Who must the pro5 folder be owned by as it can't be owned by any of the users because they must all be have read write and execute rights to it?
drwxr-xr-x 9 ngn users 840 Sep 9 2004 ngn drwxr-xr-x 18 ngolfnet users 1120 Jun 10 10:00 ngolfnet drwx------ 9 payroll users 736 Jun 10 10:00 payroll drwx------ 9 pos users 736 Jun 10 10:00 pos drwxrxr-x 10 700 users 1608 Feb 3 02:56 pro5
So long as the group rights are suitable, the directory can be owned by anyone. That "anyone" doesn't even have to be a real user. However, since it doesn't appear that you want most users to access payroll or pos, you might want to change the owner of them.