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Old 03-18-2009
Question How to find a user's file permissions
Hi. I would like to know if there is any command that could list simple file permissions (like , R , RW..etc) for a given uid/userid and on a given file/dir.
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Old 03-19-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ram123
Hi. I would like to know if there is any command that could list simple file permissions (like , R , RW..etc) for a given uid/userid and on a given file/dir.
with simple
Code:
 
ls -l

command you can get the file/dir permission and third column will show the userid also
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Old 03-19-2009
Good starting point
Code:
stat --printf "Human Readable: %A \nGroup name of owner %G \n"  file

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Old 03-19-2009
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Originally Posted by aaaaargh
Good starting point
Code:
stat --printf "Human Readable: %A \nGroup name of owner %G \n"  file

Isn't this valid for Linux only?
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Old 03-19-2009
stat does not seem to be available on my server ( sun os ). also , would like to know the user's permissions even if the user is a member of a group that owns the resource. thanks .
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Old 03-19-2009
Can we try another way: what issue are you facing?
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Old 03-19-2009
ok.
In the UI(webpage) i would like to show list of directories that user has access to. ( this user has the unix account and is just a normal user of the webapp).

Another caveat is , these users may also be in groups which have access to the directories. I want to get these dirs also displayed in the UI.

( server is running as a different functional acct ).

I think this other thread has some useful info (https://www.unix.com/security/55223-recursively-find-change-permissions-man-pages.html ) . like using find. for example : find filename.txt -type f -user userid -o -type f -perm -4
 
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