On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 11:06 -0700, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> Hi
> I want to grant users to access (read/execute) some files and folders
> inside my home directory. Using chmod seems to be insufficient. For
> example I have made an executable file public for all
> 
> 
> [mahmood@tiger ~]$ chmod 777 test
> [mahmood@tiger ~]$ ls -l test
> -rwxrwxrwx. 1 mahmood mahmood 8026 Sep  2 12:18 test
> 
Are all this taking place on the same system?

You can create a group and put all the users in that group, this way
they will only have access to that particular directory. Then do the
following:

$ groupadd pubgrp
$ chown -R mahmood.pubgrp /home/mahmood/test
$ chmod -R 2770 /home/mahmood/test

> 
> 
> 
> 
> However when another user tries to run, it receives permission error
> 
> 
> [anotherone@tiger ~]$ /home/mahmood/test
> -bash: /home/mahmood/test: Permission denied
> 
> 
> 
> What is the solution.
> 
>  
> Regards,
> Mahmood
> 

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