AIX

Is there any possible way to give permission to a user to a file whose not a member of that group. Also the permission of the file shouls be given only to that USER but not all OTHERS.

Thanks in Advance for ur replies/suggestions...

My crystal ball is out of order, so I'll guess: your OS does support ACL's - access control lists - for files. If so, your system will probably have one of these commands: chacl or setfacl.

ACL's provide very fine-grained file access, for example on a per-user basis.

If not, get back to us with full system information please.

Thnxs a lot...

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Jim- Can you please let me know the steps to do the same...

I do not know AIX. It is markedkly different from other unixes. Moving this to AIX forum.

this is possible for AIX. ACLs are enabled by default(no need to use a mount option). See Access Control Lists for details.

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