[CentOS] Permissions

Joshua Baker-LePain

jlb17 at duke.edu
Thu Aug 3 16:48:13 UTC 2006


On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 at 11:48am, Chris Peikert wrote

> I am trying to figure out how permissions work in Linux.  In windows if I
> want someone to have access to something you put their name in a group then
> give that group access to that folder. However things can get difficult when
> you have an office with a folder structure like this:
> Taxoffice--->Names---> Private.  Everyone in the group would need access to
> the Taxoffice folder and names folder but lets say only 4 people out of 12
> need access to the private folder. 2 of those people need read only access
> and 2 full access. In windows this is easy because you can apply multiple
> groups and peoples permissions to a folder and file. How is this done in
> Linux when all I see is Owner and 1 Group permission?

'man acl'

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University



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