Re: Java permissions for multiple users?

From: Sayantan Sur (surs.deletethis_at_cis.ohio-state.edu)
Date: 10/04/03 

Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:19:57 -0400

Ian Gil wrote:

> A regular user owns them both since I had to do
>
> chown -R <regular user>.<regular user> j2re1.4.2_01
>
> to get that to work only for the specified regular user.
> root.staff owned it originally.

Why does a regular user have to *own* the directory ? Execute perms should
be enough. 

-- 
Sayantan Sur
Graduate Research Assistant
Dept. of Computer Science
The Ohio State University.