Need help with permissions and groups

[Nico]

Hello world =)
I need som help on how groups work and how I set permissions. How I make groups and how I assign which permissions they have. So I can create ex. 2 groups with a user in each one.
And how to set the permission on storage so both groups can edit and write to the harddrive without using other.
Ex. If I make a folder in a harddrive and want one group to have full access to that folder alone, how do I do that?
Thanks for your help :)

Nico

 

[ProtoSD]

Lets say you you have 3 folders, one belongs to the first user & the group that user belongs to, another folder you want to be in common, and the third belongs to the second user & group.

The first folder and all of its files should be rwx------ (or chmod 700)

For the common folder:
you would need to add each user to the other users 'group'
and set permissions on each folder and file you want both users read/write access to rwxrwx--- (or chmod 770)

The third folder would be the same as the first, but owned by the other user.

This is just a quick overview, I'll try to update with some screenshots of the GUI in a bit.

Actually, I'll post the detailed answer in the HOWTO Thread.

 

[ProtoSD]

Nico, how will your users be accessing the files/folders? Using CIFS/Samba (Windows)?

Here is my How-To for setting up permissions. Let me know if you have trouble using them and I can update them as needed.

http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?1122-Set-Permission-to-allow-users-to-share-a-common-folder-amp-have-private-personal-folder&p=4539#post4539