topic Re: Group Control in Operating System - HP-UX

Group Control

ivy1234 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:32:05 GMT

I have a file the owner is root:root ( mode is 644 ) , I want to release read & write permission to a non root user ( eg. admin_usr ) , I tried to create a specific group ( eg. ADM ) and release it to root user and admin_usr ( by adding this users to ADM in /etc/group ) , but it is not work , can advise if preserve the file mode to 644 , is it ok ? how to do it if I want to have read & write permission in my case ?

Re: Group Control

Stephan._1 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:39:48 GMT

Check f.e. http://permissions-calculator.org/

If you want write for the group you need give them the write permissions, in other words you cannot use 644 and have write for the group.

You will need to change to 664 at least.

hth
Stephan

Re: Group Control

ivy1234 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:04:54 GMT

if I want to preserve 644 , do I have another way ? for example , change the file group to root:ADM etc ?

Thanks

Re: Group Control

Steven Schweda — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:40:34 GMT

> if I want to preserve 644 , [...]

Why would you want to do this? As in a
previous thread,

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1460503

you seem to want to keep read-only
permissions, but allow write access. Why?

As previously suggested, ACLs can let you do
things like this, but it's not clear why you
want what you say you want.

Re: Group Control

ivy1234 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:49:30 GMT

Thx reply .

Re: Group Control

ivy1234 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:50:06 GMT

I will try ACL.