controlling file usage

Henry Chua — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:12:56 GMT

hi guys,
want to discuss is there a good system to control the use of a shared file? i.e. to disallow ppl from using it when am.

regards
henry

Re: controlling file usage

Mel Burslan — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:24:15 GMT

assuming you have root privileges, trivial solution is to change the ownership and permissions of the file as desired using cron jobs.

for instance if you want people to be able to read /etc/profile only when they log in in the afternoon, you can set up a cron job like this

at 12:01
chmod 755 /etc/profile
^D

commands will be executed .... blah... blah

and one minute past midnight

at 00:01
chmod 700 /etc/profile
^D

commands will be executed .... blah... blah

hope it helps

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controlling file usage

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