I know that removing 'visitor' write permissions is probably not the correct procedure. Cause how this computer setup as now gives ownership of the [Shared] to everyone who has an account on the system thus dissallowing [visitors/guests to write]. Your help is appreciated. More understanding on my end is necessary that is obvious. What I hope to know now is well... in the Debian world fact is---add users to specific groups not just add groups to users. <----Is that the right way I should be thinking? I'll read more thanks Ryan. Thanks for all your help. > From: ryanjcole at me.com > Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:35:00 -0500 > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] A visitor account setup. > > Seconded. > > In the BSD world we have “wheel” instead of a labeled administrator group. I have 30 or so “special” accounts that are for my photographers so they’re in a group called “photographers”. > > Plus, having special tasks running in the background, having that group is advantageous because I have those tasks only target those folders. And since some of these tasks are directly created/spawned by web server function I can somewhat protect myself. > > Somewhat. > > I don’t recommend doing it, though, unless you’re very experienced and especially careful. I once had a photographer (many moons ago when I was young and dumb) delete 15 games worth of photos. She got click-happy and my other photographers wre not impressed having to reupload all their photos. > > She blamed it on a medical condition; I, on the other hand, knew better and asked her some technical support-style questions. When logic was not the issue I terminated her contract. > > Live and learn. At least it was an easy “oops” to overcome. Most others, though, are not. > > tl;dr - make sure you CYA when you set things up. > > > On Apr 21, 2014, at 5:43 PM, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, paul g wrote: > > > >> If I can ask why when user 'paul' is selected it does not show that 'paul is > >> a member of paul's group'? > >> is it because 'paul' is an administrator? > > > > "paul" is probably in many groups. There's really no need to create a group specifically for "paul" since "paul" is a regular user, not a special user. You're not going to create multiple users who have the same special access as "paul" does. > > > > Groups are for combining roles, so you'll have "users", "administrators", etc. > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140421/45e098b8/attachment.html>