Re: [webmin-l] File; Folder Ownership

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Vern wrote:
> This may sound like a crazy question but it's never been an issue for me until now.
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to have two owner's of a folder. If I go under the 
> file manager and I select the folder and try to add two user names under the owenrship 
> bu it will not let me. Is there any other way or is this not possible?

You can't have two owners.  You can, however, create a group containing 
those two users (it can be a secondary group, and probably should be, 
since many systems have a specific primary group for normal users, or 
they auto-generate a primary group named after the user), and then set 
the group ownership to that group.  Just make sure group can read/write 
your file, and all will be well.  If the folder is within a parent 
folder that is not readable by either user or the group, then there will 
still be permissions problems.  I usually solve this by creating a 
"/home/shared" folder that all of my users have access to, and then, if 
you need further granularity you can create subfolders for each new 
group which can only be accessed by that group.