On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 13:45 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > /home/pub > > and > > /home/echange > > Then, I created two groups, "administrators" and "agents". Here's what > I'd like to achieve (but I think my IQ is just below the required limit > :oD): > > 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? > --- You just Cracked that Nut Yourself! You know what you want to do. You layed it out think. man chown and man chmod is your friends chgrp also. John