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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>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. <br><br>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?<br><br>I'll read more thanks Ryan.<br>Thanks for all your help.<br><br><div>> From: ryanjcole@me.com<br>> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:35:00 -0500<br>> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] A visitor account setup.<br>> <br>> Seconded.<br>> <br>> 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”.<br>> <br>> 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.<br>> <br>> Somewhat.<br>> <br>> 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.<br>> <br>> 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.<br>> <br>> Live and learn. At least it was an easy “oops” to overcome. Most others, though, are not.<br>> <br>> tl;dr - make sure you CYA when you set things up.<br>> <br>> <br>> On Apr 21, 2014, at 5:43 PM, tclug@freakzilla.com wrote:<br>> <br>> > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, paul g wrote:<br>> > <br>> >> If I can ask why when user 'paul' is selected it does not show that 'paul is<br>> >> a member of paul's group'?<br>> >> is it because 'paul' is an administrator?<br>> > <br>> > "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.<br>> > <br>> > Groups are for combining roles, so you'll have "users", "administrators", etc.<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>> > tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>> tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br></div> </div></body>
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