[NTLUG:Discuss] force group ownership

[Paul Ingendorf]

The easy answer to this is that all users that aren't in the planning group are "world users".
So while you could create a single user and have many people share the username and password is this really what your looking for?
I would venture to guess you are simply looking for a way that these people may view these files without modifying them.  For this I would create a symlink in each of their home dirs called planning.

I do this like so.
I create a nice little symlink file in /etc/skel called planning like so.
# ln -s /home/planning /etc/skel/planning
I create my user pauldy with
# adduser pauldy

Now I have a user pauldy who is more than likely now just in the group of users or simply the group of pauldy(this depends on how your distro configures it by default).  In his home dir there is now a symlink to the folder /home/planning were he can read files but not modify them based off our earlier configurations.

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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of Bobby Wrenn
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:12 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] force group ownership


Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the long answers but you don't see many questions on this and it is very important to understand how permissions work in order to maintain a secure setup and still give your users the flexibility they need to get their work done.
> 
Paul, I really appreciate your long answers.

I think I have the permissions right. the question now is what is the
best way to create a world user to access the share. Can I create a user
with planning as the home directory and only read access? Or is there a
world user by default on Linux systems?

Did that make sense?

Bobby

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