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Operating Systems AIX Granting folder access Post 302301400 by dkranes on Thursday 26th of March 2009 06:42:27 PM
Old 03-26-2009
Do you have to use a group to allow individual users access to a folder owned by the group? If so, can a user belong to more than 1 group?

~David
 

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groups(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						groups(1B)

NAME
groups - display a user's group memberships SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/groups [user]... DESCRIPTION
With no arguments, groups displays the groups to which you belong; else it displays the groups to which the user belongs. Each user belongs to a group specified in the password file /etc/passwd and possibly to other groups as specified in the file /etc/group. If you do not own a file but belong to the group which it is owned by then you are granted group access to the file. FILES
/etc/passwd /etc/group ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
getgroups(2), attributes(5) NOTES
This command is obsolete. SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 groups(1B)
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