[CentOS] Permissions

Thu Aug 3 17:36:45 UTC 2006
Alan Sparks <asparks at doublesparks.net>

Chris Peikert said:
> I have read through the Manuals and I have read through the website. I am
> still unable to find an answer on how to assign multiple groups to one
> directory or file with different permissions. Everything points to one
> group
> and one owner. Is there something else Linux uses for permissions to fix
> this problem?

For that sort of fine-grained control, I think you may need to abandon the
classic stuff and use Posix access control lists.  Do a 'man acl' and see
if that is what you're looking for.

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Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator    <asparks at doublesparks.net>