Am Donnerstag 03 August 2006 19:27 schrieb Chris Peikert: > 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? suppose you have 2 groups admin audatex admin should get rights "rwx" audatex should get rigts "rw" root at main tk]#setfacl -m group:admin:rwx /path/to/folder root at main tk]#setfacl -m group:audatex:rw- /path/to/folder inspect with getfacl /path/to/folder i.e. [root at main tk]# getfacl /etc/hosts getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: etc/hosts # owner: root # group: root user::rw- user:tk:rw- group::r-- group:audatex:rwx group:audatex:rw- mask::rwx other::r-- HTH Timothy