Hi there. was hoping someone could help me. i have a folder that i need to set permissions on. i have a few groups that need diffrent permissions on the same folder. does anyone know a way to do this without using acl ?

No acl?I am not sure what you are looking for.I mean; what you want to do? Give me some precise info about your problem. I'll walk you through; with or without acl. See ya mate!

How are they accessing the directory? Locally, over a network, samba, nfs etc?

thanks for the reply guys here is the details all this happens localy a folder called testfolder a group called group1 (2 users is admin admin1) a group called group2 (2 users manger manager1) a group called group3 (2 users worker1 worker2) each group needs diffrent access to this folder group 1 needs full control group 2 needs read only group 3 needs no access just not sure how to get arround only being allowed to set permissions for one group. im familer with NT security and this is a little diffrent.

Some links that may help: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1387/ http://www.suse.de/~agruen/acl/linux-acls/online/ http://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/howto/unix/acls.php http://trustees.sourceforge.net/

1. create a testfolder as user admin (as he has full control) 2. bring up terminal and execute : setfacl -m group:group1:rwx,group:group2:r-x,group:group3:---,other:---,mask:rwx testfolder/ 3. That's it. It wokrs on my machine with SuSE. P.S You had to put r-x for group2 because group 2 needs to enter that folder. If you have some problems with this write again