Linux File access for Different Groups 1

[baden]

Is there a way to specify which groups can access/read/write/etc. a specific file - not my group and all others.

Ie: I'm a member of group 1. I want members of group 3 and 6 to be able to access the file, but no others.

How is this accomplished?

 

[ericbrunson]

Not really. You'd need to make a group with the members of 3 and 6 in it.

 

[zeland]

This same problem was a bit of a hassle when we first switched over to Linux. We were very used to the traditional Windows way of assigning permissions.

We basically overcame the problem by creating role based groups; ie. accounts group, management group, engineering group, etc. and assigning user accounts to the groups depending on their role in the company. With this said, you will also need to put in some thought as to the structure of the folders in your file server and change it if required. You would want to consider a wide-short trees instead of narrow-tall ones.


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[ericbrunson]

There are a couple of extended ACL projects for linux. trustees.sourceforge.net comes to mind. Google for "linux acl" and you'll find several suggestions.

 

[flugh]

I followed instructions here:

http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/ACL/linux-acl.html

and have acl's available on my Fedora Core 2 box at home (I had to install a newer kernel, v2.6.x).

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JBR

 

[zeland]

How I wished we had ACL's some 3 years ago when we migrated our NT4 fileservers over to RH7.2, it was a real trial-and-error nightmare for the first 2 months of the migration. Will be looking forward to next years IT budget to change out our old fileservers and load up FC3. Good Link.


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