Les Mikesell wrote: > edwardspl@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I want to how to config the limitation ( permission ) from the >> following ? >> >> [svradmin@svr1 etc]$ pwd >> /usr/local/proftpd/etc >> [svradmin@svr1 etc]$ ls -l >> total 4 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1894 Feb 20 00:22 proftpd.conf >> [svradmin@svr1 etc]$ >> >> Only allow user root, svradmin and edward they can access to >> /usr/.local/proftpd/etc/ ( directory ) and read / modify the config >> file ( such as proftpd.conf ). > > > Root automatically has full access and doesn't need special > consideration. One of the other users (svradmin) can be the owner and > have rwx permission. To allow access by additional users you can add > group rwx permission and put the users in the of the files. Having a > single other user is a slightly special case where you could give > edward's group to the file instead of the other way around. In any > case you need to be careful when creating new files to set the correct > group. > Hello, Do you means (operation steps ) : chown -R svradmin.edward /usr/local/proftpd/etc chmod 660 /usr/local/proftpd/etc/proftpd.conf So, Only svradmin, edward and root user they can access to the directory and read / modify the file, right ? Edward.