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Is it possible to give two users different permissions on the same directory? I want to use it for ftp: userFull gets R+W and userLim gets only Read, depending on who logs on. Im getting stuck on the ownership versus group rights... (I use CentOS+Directadmin and Proftpd)

So the following is what I want if it's possible at all:

/home/myDir  -  userFull  -  read & write
/home/myDir  -  userLim  -  read only
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Yes, by using ACL - Access Control Lists. (if not avail, install via yum install acl)

Before you start setting ACL, you initially need to enable ACL support for filesystem, for doing it manually use: 

mount -o remount,acl $filesystem

But you need to enter this command every time you boot the system. To avoid this, you can enable acl when the filesystem is mounted, by using fstab.

Eg. /etc/fstab (for your home directory), if you are using ext4 file system: 

LABEL=/home        /home         ext4           defaults,acl          1 2

For more information go to redhat documentation link.

By setfacl you can assign permission like::

setfacl -m u:Full:rwx /home/myDir
setfacl -m u:Lim:rx /home/myDir

After that by getfacl, you can view the permissions:

getfacl /home/myDir

For more info, please visit CentOS documentation page.

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  • ok, i've installed setfacl via yum install acl and used your example. When I do getfacl the permissions are correct, but I still cannot connect with the readonly user (I get a 530 error) – Bokw May 20 '14 at 12:21
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    for directory you also need to have execute permissions (x). Try: setfacl -m u:Lim:rx /home/myDir – Tejas May 20 '14 at 12:33
  • @Tejax yep discovered that, thanks! I adjusted that in your opening post i accepted your answer. Another question/problem now: when I upload files with userFull and I want to view them with userLim, it doesn't allow that, you know why? – Bokw May 20 '14 at 12:34
  • is this in the same directory (myDir)? – Tejas May 20 '14 at 14:23
  • @Christopher, yes, I forgot to mention about this, I have edited my answer accordingly – Tejas May 21 '14 at 2:09

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