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Old 05-11-2002
dir access

How do I give specific user the ablity to create, delete, rename, and alter in a specific directory. I am using redhad 7.2 and would like to give a specific user the rights to a dirc in the main www directory.
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Old 05-11-2002
Look at the chown command in the man pages.
Will help you out I suspect.
 
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