topic Re: Directory access on unix in Operating System - HP-UX

Directory access on unix

Rajesh Karelia — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:29:33 GMT

Hello,

I am not a Unix Pro and have a stupid question to ask.

There is a user on a unix box. I want this user to have permission to access a particular directory which does not belong to him or his group. At the same time, nobody else should be able to access that directory (apart from the owner of that directory.).

How do I achieve this?

Many thanks.
Rajesh

Re: Directory access on unix

Duncan Edmonstone — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:50:35 GMT

Rajesh,

Not using standard UNIX permissions... but if we are talking about HP-UX here, you can use Access Control Lists (ACLs). For details see the man pages for aclv and setacl:

man 5 aclv
man 1 setacl

HTH

Duncan

Re: Directory access on unix

Adam Winebaugh — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:12:03 GMT

Run the command ls -al and find out who/what the owner/groups are. And the easiest way would be to add that perosn to that secondary group. Say it is the dba group user command /usr/sbin/usermod â G group(s) < username> that should give them access.

Re: Directory access on unix

Adam Winebaugh — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:12:43 GMT

Wow typo use /usr/sbin/usermod -G group(s) < username>