On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 08:04 +0200, 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 assessable to users, and all users are members 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
Since every new user on SuSE linux belongs to the users group you may want to pick something different. Change the perms to 770 to restrict access to the owner and group members. You can also look into using extended perms, ACL's, for granting access as well. If only someone will come up with a GUI for ACL's it would sure help the new people. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge