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Problem with user accounts
Name: Dharshana Date: November 19, 2003 at 01:50:11 Pacific OS: win 2000 CPU/Ram: p3
Comment:
Hi, Our Server is Sun OS 5.8. I have created a user account on it. I can login using telnet from my windows machine to the solaris machine. I can excecute all the commands but not some. E.g. Especially I can't create folders, create files etc. Does anybody know how to create users with those permissions?
Name: Ivbo Date: November 26, 2003 at 03:15:09 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Dharshana, you have to understand permission policy of unix. All that is not explicit allow is denied (by default)! Each folder and file have 3 groups of permission - permitssons of owner, permissions of group members and permissions of others. Log in as super user and change permission of desired directory: #chmod 777 [full path to your directory] Typing this you will give full access for everybody. It is quite dangerous to do this. In other case you can make user to be a member of the group of desired directory and give permission only to group members. Send me a mail if you would like more particularity.
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