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' -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University