RE: Files & permissions

Understand....lets say there's only one file I wish only read access
to,I don't want them logging on as me, can I create a separate log on, &
give them read only access to this one file?.

Rgds.

Harry.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas Lund
Sent: 21 July 2004 15:18
To: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 7.3 (Valhalla)
Subject: Re: Files & permissions


Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:45:55 +0100, "Harry Hambi" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have  files that I would like others to have read only, the machine 
> in question is a linux dhcp server,there's only one username & 
> password to this box.how do I create another account to this box with 
> read only access to all files on the box.

If by "all files on the box" you mean system files and the lot, the
short answer is that you can't and you probably wouldn't really want to.

To get an understanding of the UN*X file permission model, have a look
at the manpage for "chmod" by typing "man chmod" at the command prompt.


However, if you mean within a certain file area, like you want to use
your linux box as a file server then I'd look at Samba if I were you.
Samba lets your linux box emulate a Windos server, and shares can be set
up with read/write or read-only permissions based on the user name.

See www.samba.org for more information, the RPMs are included with RH
Linux but you might want to go with a slightly newer version :-)

Hope this helps,


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