Managing file permissions using groups

Managing file permissions using groups

To allow set of users to have access to same set of files groups can be used.

Creating groups

To create group use:

groupadd <group_name>

Adding users to groups

Then users can be added to group using:

usermod -a -G <group_name> usernames

Setting proper group permissions on files

Finall change the group of files / folders to desired group using:

chgrp -R <group_name> files