On Thursday 24 May 2007 12:25, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
access the directory, and they may read MyNewFile, but they may NOT change MyNewFile... they do not have write authority to the file.
I understand that much. But that's everyone in 'users' group. I want just one individual person to have read-only permission. Assign the "individual" to a different group.
By default in opensuse every new user is added to the "users" group. For the one individual--- assign her to a restricted group. The "other" permission bits will then apply to her... and anyone else *not* in the "users" group. All of your users can have the "users" permissions (r w - ) and the "other" permissions ( r - - ) will apply to her... and everyone else in groups other than "users". Another way to be more specific (and more flexible) is to use ACLs. If you open your suse help center and click on the Reference==>Administration==>Access Control Lists in Linux , you will find some really good into on setting up versatile and flexible authorization schemes. Basically chapter 24 sections 1-5 for the printed manual. I have been playing around with ACLs for a while... but really, must of what I need to get accomplished can be easily handled with the traditional unix permission bits... take a go at it. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org