NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/unix/question/15212

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From: [e-mail] (Rob Lyle  Wizard of Ozje)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Allowing only user a,b, and c to read my dir?
Keywords: access control lists permissions security
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Date: 6 Jan 93 14:17:16 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Christoph Badura) writes:
|> In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Charles A. Lind) writes:
|> >    Is there a way (shell, c code, $#@&%) that I could allow
|> >certain users access to certain directories.  That is I have a
|> >directory called mystuff that I wish user1 user2 to have access to,
|> >and I have directory neat_stuff that I wish user2 and user3 to have
|> >access to.  Is there a way of doing this?
|>
|> If user1 and user2 belong to group1 but user3 not you can deny user3
|> access to directory mystuff if it is owned by group1 and the mode is
|> something like 0770 (i.e. accessible by the group but not by all
|> others).
|> --

Also, if you run IBM AIX, or HP-UX then you can use access control lists.  RTFM
regarding those 8-)

--Rob.


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