On 4/27/06, Huy Ton That <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay I'm feeling like an idiot now, if i chowned a directory such that > > user 'x' had the ownership of a given directory and was in group 'alpha' > > user 'b' needed to add files to the said directory and was in group 'alpha' > > now I know usually you do chown :groupname <dir/file> or chown > user:groupname <dir/file> to change ownership however... > > I can limit a directory to only a user, but I want to limit it not at a user > level, but at a group level such that all users in a group can write to a > file. > > An option to remove ownership perhaps chown -:groupname does this make > sense?
Sounds as if you want to change the permissions to allow group read/write of the directory, at which point the owner won't matter. You probably want something like: # chgrp groupname dirname # chmod ug+rwx dirname http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/permissions.html -- Noel Jones _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
