[K12OSN] file permissions for different groups?

[Krsnendu Dasa]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:09, Krsnendu Dasa wrote:
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>>I have a directory with files inside.
>>I want staff to be able to view it but not write.
>>I want admin group to be able to read or write.
>>Noone else should be able to access it.
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>>How do I do that?
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>Move it under another directory owned by a group containing
>all the members of the staff and admin groups and a mode
>that gives rx permission only to group, none to other.  Then
>the existing directory can be group admin, rwx for group,
>rx for other and the files group admin, rw group, r other
>(other in this case being limited to the set that can get past
>that upper directory).
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>>Also I have a WinXP user who copies files to our samba server. Every 
>>time he copies something it is rw only for owner not group. How do I set 
>>it up so that when he copies files it is always rw for admin group?
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>Samba has it's own settings.  In the share definition in
>/etc/samba/smb.conf you can
>force group = admin
>force create mode = 0775
>force directory mode = 0775
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Thanks.