[CentOS] Permission problem

[JohnS]

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 13:45 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:

> /home/pub
> 
> and
> 
> /home/echange
> 
> Then, I created two groups, "administrators" and "agents". Here's what 
> I'd like to achieve (but I think my IQ is just below the required limit 
> :oD):
> 
> 1) Members of the "administrators" group have unlimited read/write 
> access to /home/pub and below.
> 
> 2) Members of the "agents" group have read-only access to /home/pub and 
> below.
> 
> 3) All the others (that is, members of neither "administrators" and 
> "agents") have no access at all to /home/pub, not even for listing the 
> directory content.
> 
> The thing is: I can't seem to formulate my problem in terms of 
> user/group/others, as there are no owners, but two distinct groups 
> involved.
> 
> Any idea how to crack that nut?
> 
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You just Cracked that Nut Yourself! You know what you want to do. You
layed it out think. man chown and man chmod is your friends chgrp also.

John