Assigning group rights

[A.J. Bonnema]

Bruce W. Bigby wrote:
<snip a piece where Bruce explains very thouroughly how to use groups>

> Imagine that you have a LimeWire (peer-to-peer file sharing software)
> repository and you store a bunch of files under a particular directory
> under Windows. Let's say, you reboot into Linux and you run LimeWire
> under Linux but you wish to use the same directory for LimeWire under
> Windows.  Well, you give everyone in your family the ability to read and
> write to the vfat disk so that when they run LimeWire, they are storing
> to the same directory.  To accomplish this, you add every user in your
> family to the bonnema group and you mount your vfat disk as I have done,
> but using the the name, bonnema, since that is your family name.
> 
> I hope that this is clear.

Thank you very much Bruce, it is very clear. I will now start using this 
group-thing to my advantage. Thank you.

Guus.
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