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Operating Systems AIX Permission to a external user to a file Post 302458278 by bakunin on Thursday 30th of September 2010 09:39:31 AM
Old 09-30-2010
I suggest staying away from ACLs. They tend to create bigger problems than they solve, but that is just my opinion.

Having said this: create a special group, give ownership of the file to this group, set the group rights to what you need and add the user you want to give access to the file to this group. This should achieve what you want.

Example:
Code:
file: /this/is/myfile owned by user:group
user to give access to: otheruser

# ls -l /this/is/myfile
-rwxr-----  1 user group 174080 Jun 15 12:14 /this/is/myfile
# mkgroup users=user,otheruser fileacc
# chown user:fileacc /this/is/myfile
# chmod 760 /this/is/myfile

# ls -l /this/is/myfile
-rwxrw----  1 user fileacc 174080 Jun 15 12:14 /this/is/myfile

This will give the ID "otheruser" read- and write-access to the file while changing nothing for UID "user". Set the filemode "740" for read-access only.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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rpccp_remove_member

remove member(1m)														 remove member(1m)

NAME

       remove member - Removes a specified member from a group

SYNOPSIS

       rpccp remove member  group-entry-name -m member [-s syntax]

OPTIONS

       Declares  the  entry  name  of the group member to be removed (required).  Indicates the name syntax of the entry name (optional). The only
       value for this option is the dce name syntax, which is the default name syntax. Until an alternative name syntax becomes available,  speci-
       fying the -s option is unnecessary.

ARGUMENTS

       Indicates  the  name  of  the  target group.  For an entry in the local cell, you can omit the cell name and specify only the cell-relative
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DESCRIPTION

       The remove member command removes a specified member from a specified group.

   Privilege Required
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NOTE

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EXAMPLES

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