From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 11: 9:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B0237B404 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:09:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A88E443EB2 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:09:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gAQJ9QS18175; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:09:27 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200211261909.gAQJ9QS18175@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: allow write to directory but not modify the dir itself possible? To: peter@skyrunner.net (Peter Brezny) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:09:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Peter Brezny" at Nov 26, 2002 01:51:48 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi Everyone, > > Is it possible to allow a user write permissions inside a particular > directory, but not allow them to modify the directory itself? Yes. > > Thanks, > Peter Brezny > Skyrunner.net Just take away write permissions on the directory, but leave it on the file[s] in the directory. You have to leave x permission on the directory, but not necessarily r permission. ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message