[CentOS] Permissions

Mon Aug 7 16:20:48 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 12:27 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote:
> 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?

The usual approach is to create groups with the correct users. That is,
a group except for one user is really a different group.  You might
want to script a way to maintain them if certain groups are always
strict subsets of others.

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  Les Mikesell
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