From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 3:28:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 159EA37B400 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 03:28:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:28:16 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16nHmR-0005rU-00; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:27:51 +0000 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:27:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Richard Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: How to disallow a certain user or group to access a directory and all other users will not be affected In-Reply-To: <200203191104.g2JB4VH56561@sydmail3.telpacific.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Richard wrote: > I am facing a problem that I only want to block a certain > user or a group to access a few directories and all other > users will not be affected. > > It does not seem to be a problem in win2000, but I cannot > implement in FreeBSD or Linux. Is it possible to implement > in FreeBSD or Linux? You need extended ACLs. I believe Linux has them; the TrustedBSD project is doing the same for FreeBSD (the code's already in current, IIRC). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Q: What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice? A: Zorn's lemon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message