Creating custom access groups

[Doug]

Hello to you all...I was hoping someone could help me with this quick
question. I'm a student at a university were the system of choice is SunOS
5.9. The university provides space for each student to have an ftp
location. What I would like to do is to create a folder inside my main ftp
folder that allows read/write access not only to me but also to one more
person (but only this one folder). I was wondering whether there exists a
way of creating a file in that directory (such as for example .group) where
I can include that user's username, and such that when they try to access
that folder they will be prompted for their login password. So in a way, I
need to define a custom group for one directory, and then I'd like to give
that group read/write/execute permission for any files in that folder.

Thanks a lot to all

Doug

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Masvc.648253$oR5.1088@pd7tw3no>,
"Doug" <umdougmm@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello to you all...I was hoping someone could help me with this quick
> question. I'm a student at a university were the system of choice is SunOS
> 5.9. The university provides space for each student to have an ftp
> location. What I would like to do is to create a folder inside my main ftp
> folder that allows read/write access not only to me but also to one more
> person (but only this one folder). I was wondering whether there exists a
> way of creating a file in that directory (such as for example .group) where
> I can include that user's username, and such that when they try to access
> that folder they will be prompted for their login password. So in a way, I
> need to define a custom group for one directory, and then I'd like to give
> that group read/write/execute permission for any files in that folder.

Take a look at access control lists -- they allow you to specify
permissions on a user-by-user basis.

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Barry Margolin, [email]barmar@alum.mit.edu[/email]
Arlington, MA
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