On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > On Saturday, February 12, 2011 09:02 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: >> Anyway, neither in windows nor in unix/linux you want to specify >> permissions on a per user level. Always groups. If the user leaves the >> company and the permissions are on a per user level you need to start >> all over again. If on a per group level, just disable/remove the user >> from the group and it keeps working for the rest of members. > > And what do you do when you have cases that a user needs access to these > set of files/directories but not all the files/directories the group has > access to? If you are in such a scenario, then you have not planned your folder structure well enough :-) What do you do when you have thousands of users in your company? Do you keep individual permissions or do you use group permissions? I know what I'd rather do, specially if I need to audit that folder structure. -- natxo