[TriLUG] User admin question

[Paul D. Boyle]

Kevin Hunter wrote:
> I have a user account I let the web developers use to make changes
> and updates to our website(s) ( call it /home/domains/website/htdocs/
> ).  There's an additional user, not in web group, that they would
> like to give write access to one particular subfolder so they can
> update certain pages on a daily basis.  How do I give this user
> rights to this one subfolder w/o making them a member of the group
> that has rights to /home/domains/website/htdocs/ ??

How about making a third group and making the web developers and the
additional user both members of this group?  Then make a subdirectory
(they aren't "folders" by the way) where this third group as rwx
permissions.

Paul

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