On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Steve Frampton wrote:
>
> I've created this directory. I've created a group in /etc/group called
> "its" as follows:
>
> its:x:499:frampton,mccready
>
> I've done: 'chown frampton.its /archive2/its_share' as well as
> 'chmod a-x,ug+x frampton.its'. I've then created a symbolic link to this
> directory in each applicable user's home directory (ln /archive2/its_share
> /home/frampton/its_share) -- an extra step but just something for added
> convenience.
>
> But ... things aren't working out the way I expected them to. I can't
> chdir to that directory nor can anyone else. What am I doing wrong? What
> should the umask be?
>
In order for users frampton and mccready to be
able to work within the "its" group, the have to
become part of the group by typing "newgrp its"
which makes their effective group "its" rather
than their private group.
You can also password protect the group by putting
a previously encripted password in the group entry
like so:
its:fh9VtYxZvCMPs:499:frampton,mccready
There is no facility for adding the password (is
there?), so you can create a dummy user, give it
the password of your choice and then transfer the
password from /etc/passwd to /etc/group.
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