Hi everybody,

I have a system with AIX 5.2. I want to create a User on this system. This User shouldn't has an admin rights, but I want to allow him to remove any directory from a specific path where the owner of this path is another user (not root).

what is the properties that should be applied when creating this User?
and what is the permissions for the path that directories will be removed from it, if it is required?

Thanks in advance

This is a tricky one! You have not said what the directory permissions will be or how this pseudo super user will need to get round such permissions. The simple way I can see of doing this would be to write a script which takes the directory name to be deleted and is run using the "su -c" command. This can then be run as root but only for this operation. Perhaps someone may come up with a better solution.

This is a tricky one, allowing a user to delete any folders, I would also assume the user would see the files in any folders, and also allow the user to delete any files in any folders any where.... but can't be a admin...
I see some conflicts, but would love to see the answer if there is one.

if you want to allow him to delete /home/test he must be in the group for the directory above, which is /home. It must have write right for the group, like
drwxrwxr-x 17 root group 4096 Nov 1 17:17 /home


otherwise you have to use sudo for this purpose

if thats an option for you I can give you the settings for the sudoers file