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user & group permissions
Name: shahzin Date: December 15, 2003 at 01:52:17 Pacific OS: RH 8 CPU/Ram: P3/128MB
Comment:
hello friends, is it possible to set the permission for a particular user & group the way we do in Win NT/2K. As far as i know we can set permission only for owner or the group to which we belong to or others. can we set the permission for user xyz or group abc.
Name: Jake Date: December 15, 2003 at 11:09:43 Pacific
Reply:
What you've described requires Access Control Lists (ACLs). RedHat uses the ext3 filesystem by default, and ACLs are supported on ext3, but I don't know if RH 8 has this support compiled into the kernel by default. ReiserFS also supports ACLs as an extension. SGI's XFS and IBM's JFS both have native ACL support.
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