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Hello experts I am new to Unix.

Env : HPUX
I need to create a user say testuser such that it does not have access to file/directories from the other group i.e the last 3 digits .

How do I do that.

Reason for such a request :-

I have an existing user oracle which has default umask as 022 so by default all its Directories have rwx r_x r_x.

Now I dont want testuser to have read or execute permission on any oracle user directories/files.

I cannot change the oracle user setup umask or its directory permissions.

So I thought something could be done to testuser so that I can restrict the other group privilege from testuser ( which oracle user gives by default to other)

Any suggestions ?
 
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PAM_GROUP(8)							 Linux-PAM Manual						      PAM_GROUP(8)

NAME
pam_group - PAM module for group access SYNOPSIS
pam_group.so DESCRIPTION
The pam_group PAM module does not authenticate the user, but instead it grants group memberships (in the credential setting phase of the authentication module) to the user. Such memberships are based on the service they are applying for. By default rules for group memberships are taken from config file /etc/security/group.conf. This module's usefulness relies on the file-systems accessible to the user. The point being that once granted the membership of a group, the user may attempt to create a setgid binary with a restricted group ownership. Later, when the user is not given membership to this group, they can recover group membership with the precompiled binary. The reason that the file-systems that the user has access to are so significant, is the fact that when a system is mounted nosuid the user is unable to create or execute such a binary file. For this module to provide any level of security, all file-systems that the user has write access to should be mounted nosuid. The pam_group module functions in parallel with the /etc/group file. If the user is granted any groups based on the behavior of this module, they are granted in addition to those entries /etc/group (or equivalent). OPTIONS
This module does not recognise any options. MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
Only the auth module type is provided. RETURN VALUES
PAM_SUCCESS group membership was granted. PAM_ABORT Not all relevant data could be gotten. PAM_BUF_ERR Memory buffer error. PAM_CRED_ERR Group membership was not granted. PAM_IGNORE pam_sm_authenticate was called which does nothing. PAM_USER_UNKNOWN The user is not known to the system. FILES
/etc/security/group.conf Default configuration file SEE ALSO
group.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(7). AUTHORS
pam_group was written by Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>. Linux-PAM Manual 06/04/2011 PAM_GROUP(8)