From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 8 21:19:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C6816A407 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:19:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chandler@chapman.edu) Received: from calais.chapman.edu (calais.chapman.edu [192.77.116.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7F713C442 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:19:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chandler@chapman.edu) Received: from [206.211.142.181] (ist181.chapman.edu [206.211.142.181]) by calais.chapman.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4792F2E9BA for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:19:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45A2B564.3070804@chapman.edu> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:19:32 -0800 From: Jay Chandler User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45A2884F.7010405@chapman.edu> <45A28FCF.5070903@infracaninophile.co.uk> <45A297CF.4000108@chapman.edu> <17826.42085.881078.64703@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <17826.42085.881078.64703@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Chapman-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Chapman-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Chapman-MailScanner-From: chandler@chapman.edu X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: Permissions Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:19:34 -0000 Robert Huff wrote: > Jay Chandler writes: > > >> >> I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the aliases >> >> file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after the eventual >> >> heat-death of the universe, so how would you all go about doing this? >> >> >> > >> > Hand him some sheets of printout? >> > >> Sadly, the data change too often for this to be effective. >> > > Copy the file evey N minutes, then change ownership and > permissions? > > > Robert Huff > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Probably the simplest way to do it-- just wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking something silly. Thanks! -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / chandler@chapman.edu Today's Excuse: Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel.