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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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ACL_ADD_PERM(3) 					   BSD Library Functions Manual 					   ACL_ADD_PERM(3)

NAME
acl_add_perm -- add permissions to a permission set LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/acl.h> int acl_add_perm(acl_permset_t permset_d, acl_perm_t perm); DESCRIPTION
The acl_add_perm() function is a POSIX.1e call that adds the permission contained in perm to the permission set permset_d. Note: it is not considered an error to attempt to add permissions that already exist in the permission set. For POSIX.1e ACLs, valid values are: ACL_EXECUTE Execute permission ACL_WRITE Write permission ACL_READ Read permission For NFSv4 ACLs, valid values are: ACL_READ_DATA Read permission ACL_LIST_DIRECTORY Same as ACL_READ_DATA ACL_WRITE_DATA Write permission, or permission to create files ACL_ADD_FILE Same as ACL_READ_DATA ACL_APPEND_DATA Permission to create directories. Ignored for files ACL_ADD_SUBDIRECTORY Same as ACL_APPEND_DATA ACL_READ_NAMED_ATTRS Ignored ACL_WRITE_NAMED_ATTRS Ignored ACL_EXECUTE Execute permission ACL_DELETE_CHILD Permission to delete files and subdirectories ACL_READ_ATTRIBUTES Permission to read basic attributes ACL_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES Permission to change basic attributes ACL_DELETE Permission to delete the object this ACL is placed on ACL_READ_ACL Permission to read ACL ACL_WRITE_ACL Permission to change the ACL and file mode ACL_SYNCHRONIZE Ignored Calling acl_add_perm() with perm equal to ACL_WRITE or ACL_READ brands the ACL as POSIX. Calling it with ACL_READ_DATA, ACL_LIST_DIRECTORY, ACL_WRITE_DATA, ACL_ADD_FILE, ACL_APPEND_DATA, ACL_ADD_SUBDIRECTORY, ACL_READ_NAMED_ATTRS, ACL_WRITE_NAMED_ATTRS, ACL_DELETE_CHILD, ACL_READ_ATTRIBUTES, ACL_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES, ACL_DELETE, ACL_READ_ACL, ACL_WRITE_ACL or ACL_SYNCHRONIZE brands the ACL as NFSv4. RETURN VALUES
The acl_add_perm() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
The acl_add_perm() function fails if: [EINVAL] Argument permset_d is not a valid descriptor for a permission set within an ACL entry. Argument perm does not contain a valid acl_perm_t value. ACL is already branded differently. SEE ALSO
acl(3), acl_clear_perms(3), acl_delete_perm(3), acl_get_brand_np(3), acl_get_permset(3), acl_set_permset(3), posix1e(3) STANDARDS
POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17. HISTORY
POSIX.1e support was introduced in FreeBSD 4.0. The acl_add_perm() function was added in FreeBSD 5.0. AUTHORS
The acl_add_perm() function was written by Chris D. Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>. BSD
June 25, 2009 BSD
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