Assigning group rights

Bruce W. Bigby bbigby at rochester.rr.com
Wed Dec 24 04:05:40 UTC 2003


On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 00:16, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> 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.

Your welcome. 8)
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Bruce W. Bigby
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