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Old 05-26-2009
granting permission to file/directory to a specific user
hello,

I would like to grant full access to a directory which is owned by root and the web application that created it. I have though of adding the permission to the whole world, but for security reason I would like to grant it to one more user.

I have tried this 'chmod -U newUser+wrx directory' which did not work, would anyone show me the right command and options to use

Thanks,
staph
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Old 05-26-2009
Probably you can create a new group & add that single user to that group.
Then change the owner of that directory to that gourp.

Root will always have the full access.
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Old 05-26-2009
to change the ownership use chown and for detail permission setting check the man pages of chmod
 
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