Why not just add a new group for each of the dir trees you care about,
then put the directories and users in the appropriate group?

I.e.,  if you have /virt/web1 and /virt/web2, and you want bob to have
access to /virt/web1, and bill to both, you make a web1 and a web2
group. Add bob to web1, bill to web1 and web2, and change the
ownership/permissions on the dirs to match the group.

Andy

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:

> I've seen this done a few different ways.
> 
> You give them each their own group, which is the same as their username.
> Then the perms on the directory are 755 or 775 and the ownership is
> luser:luser.  I've also seen people keep everyone in the same group (virt,
> web, users, whatever) and set the perms as 705 so that the other users
> can't read anything in the web directories.  This protects any code that's
> being developed from prying eyes, but lets world (anyone not logged in)
> see the pages via the web.
> 
> 
> 
> Adam Maloney
> Systems Administrator
> Sihope Communications
> 
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, mjn wrote:
> 
> > So does anyone have a non-sarcastic suggestion to my user administration
> > query?
> > 
> > The original question was something like this:
> > 
> > I have a few users who need access to some virt web server directories for
> > dev purposes.  I would like to give them all access without forcing them
> > to pickup some new commands and would also like to eliminate their
> > "need" for root access which the last admin granted them...
> > 
> > How is this sort thing typically done?  Just through different gids? or
> > what?
> > 
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