From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 15:15:50 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 15:15:48 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1721537B402 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:15:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 78208 invoked by uid 100); 5 Jan 2001 23:15:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14934.21923.31724.82507@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:15:47 -0600 (CST) To: "Dead Line" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chmod for a group users. In-Reply-To: <119347724@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" 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 X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dead Line types: > Peace, > > I would like to thank all of you first, for the help and the support > you give. > > Im on FreeBSD 4.2-Release. > and i have many groups created > what im tired from is this.. > > I tried to restrict the users of the group to only wrx thier /home/base > only (thier files only), and never can read (cat) any other file, > whatever its in thier group or no. and they cannot log into others > users dirctries. > > I Couldnot. Doesn't surprise me - the Unix permissions system isn't designed to make cooperation easy, so it doesn't handle negative permissions well. You should investigate jails and chroot'ed processes, which are designed for this kind of thing. 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