On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:31:28AM -0800, Thornton Prime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Marcus Ouimet wrote:
| > Is it possible to specify multiple owners (not groups, but actual users) to
| > a file or directory using chown? Ahy help appreciated. It is not in the
| > manual pages so I assuming it can't be done.
|
| No. Not with normal POSIX permissions.
|
| The easiest way around the problem is to use a group. You can get fancy by
| trying one of the ACL for Linux projects. Do a search on ACL at
| freshmeat.net. I think there are a couple (Linux trustees, Linux ACLs,
| others?).
It is possible to get pretty funky just with groups if you compute them
from a nice hierachical table. Look at ours:
% ypcat group | wc -l
2000
Depends how complex your needs are. For small static setups just
manipulate things by hand.
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