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- From: villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Making a read only account on 3.11
- Keywords: read-only, system administration
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:59:43 GMT
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- In article <24JAN199314325703@utkvx2.utk.edu> fnixon@utkvx2.utk.edu (Nixon, John Fred) writes:
- >I would like to make an account that has read only access to files in
- >all directories. The purpose is to have a "safe" account which can be
- >used to read any file on the server. We are running 3.11. I have read the
- >manuals, and as far as I can figure it, I wold have to add [r f]
- >permissions to each directory to the account. Surely there is a better
- >way to do this?
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- Have you tried giving the user account [R F] rights to the root of the volume.
- The rights will then cascade down the directory structure.
-
- Later,
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