Yes, as Barry said, use ACL for giving permission for group agents. The permission must be 770 and the group associated to /home/pub must be administrator. Then give acl rx (setfacl -m g:agent:rx /home/pub) to /home/pub. This should solve the issue. Make sure your filesystem is mounted with ACL support. Regards, Kurian Thayil On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote: > > 1) Members of the "administrators" group have unlimited read/write > > access to /home/pub and below. > > > > 2) Members of the "agents" group have read-only access to /home/pub and > > below. > > > > 3) All the others (that is, members of neither "administrators" and > > "agents") have no access at all to /home/pub, not even for listing the > > directory content. > > > > The thing is: I can't seem to formulate my problem in terms of > > user/group/others, as there are no owners, but two distinct groups > > involved. > > > > Any idea how to crack that nut? > > Have you looked at using ACLs? Just make sure that any backup software > you use can handle them. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090707/bd8c9e48/attachment-0004.html>