From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 17 8:42:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5A0937B405 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 18005 invoked by uid 100); 17 Jul 2001 15:42:22 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15188.23771.128210.907073@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:42:19 -0500 To: Eric Boucher Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Giving some restriction to some user In-Reply-To: <131691525@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Eric Boucher types: > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to know if there is a way to give some user > access to read, write or execute some files even if > these users are not in the same group as mine. I heard > that there is something like this on AIX machines, a > program called acl???? or something like that. Access Control Lists (acl) is a facility, not a program. It's been added to a number of Unix variants. There are some signs that some kind of acl facility will be in 5.0, but there's nothing in 4. Ryan Thompson gave provided a nice writeup on using standard unix facilities for doing this. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message