[PLUG] Permissions: multiple groups

[Brian Beattie]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:13, Scott Van Hoosen wrote:
> Is it possible in Linux to assign more than one group to a particular
> directory? For example, suppose group "business" and group "hr" need
> write access to a directory. Is it possible to add a group as a member
> of another group?

generally not currently,  what you can do, is set up a "group" in
/etc/group, that contains the people you what to have access to that
file/directory.

> 
> -Scott
> 
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