topic Re: Root Level Access in Operating System - HP-UX

Root Level Access

Yogesh Gaikwad — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:10:59 GMT

Hello,
I want to add a user who should have a write permission acroos the system. But he shouldnt have write or excecute permission. How to do the same?
I think we can set umask value to other as 400 so that the newly created user will get read access. Is this ans correct? Wil it impact current user permissions?

Re: Root Level Access

Avinash20 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:21:14 GMT

You question seems to be confusing

"I want to add a user who should have a write permission acroos the system. But he shouldnt have write or excecute permission"

Function of umask is when the particular user creates a directory(777 - umask) or file(666 - umask) it will be created with the particular permissions

Re: Root Level Access

Mark McDonald_2 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:26:34 GMT

umask is not the correct tool

umask 400 - will mean that the user creates files with some strange permissions eg:

baspb326:/home/mmcdonal# umask 400
baspb326:/home/mmcdonal# touch crap2
baspb326:/home/mmcdonal# ls -l crap2
--w-rw-rw- 1 mmcdonal other 0 Apr 1 10:24 crap2

perhaps you should look at chroot and link the files that you want him to be able to read (I assume that's what you meant)

Re: Root Level Access

Yogesh Gaikwad — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:44:17 GMT

I think i have not put my question properly.
publishing query again