From: "James Pifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On systems like NT and Netware you can look at a directory or file and
tell
> who has rights to the file. They show you all the users and all the groups
> and what rights they have.
>
> How can I do the equivalent on Linux?
On Linux it's unfortunately fairly easy. Do an ls -l on the file and you
can determine the owner and group permissions. You can then grep /etc/group
for the group name to see who is a member of that group.
> Is there a place I can assign rights as well? (GUI?)
You're thinking of access control lists, and they're not there yet (that's
why I said the permissions were unfortunately easy). Work is in progress to
add ACLs to the Linux file systems, and you download a patch kit to add them
now, but they're not production-ready. I personally wouldn't expect them
for another year or two and really hope that all the patches will be
incorporated into the 2.5 kernel series. Anybody from Red Hat care to
comment if you're looking at incorporating the ACL patches for an upcoming
release?
.../Ed
Ed Wilts
Mounds View, MN, USA
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