Permissions on a single user

[mike_1984]

Alright so here's the question and I kind of need an answer pretty quickly (my boss is waiting hehe). Is there a way to change permssions on a directory and all its files and subdirectories (-R?) to a specific user? I'm logged in as root.

Ex: I have a directory called dir1 and a user named mike. How do I give read permission to mike on dir1 and all of its subdirectories and files.

Plz help!

[chickens_are_good]

if you want to make him the owner of the folder and its contents, do

chown -R mike dir1/
chmod -R u+r dir1/

if you don't, you'll have to put him in a group and set the folder and it's contents to that group.
im pretty sure that by default, when you create a user, it creates a group with the same name with only that user in it, so if you want to use this group, you could do:

chown -R :mike dir1/
chmod -R g+r dir1/

sorry if this post is too late to help, my clocks are all different times, so I don't know what the time is.

EDIT: ok it looks like im over an hour too late...

[mike_1984]

Can you explain that a little better. I'm a Unix and Linux nub. I don't want to make him the owner of the directory. He is only a temporary person and will be deleted in 2 weeks. I want to tkeep things as simple as possible. What is the default group when you first create a user? How can I change a user's group? How do I assign permssions to a certain group while being logged into root?

Can someone please answer this. I need an answer quick.

[rong]

Can you explain that a little better. I'm a Unix and Linux nub. I don't want to make him the owner of the directory. He is only a temporary person and will be deleted in 2 weeks. I want to tkeep things as simple as possible. What is the default group when you first create a user? How can I change a user's group? How do I assign permssions to a certain group while being logged into root?

Can someone please answer this. I need an answer quick.

Google.com is a great source especially for multiple questions like these.

Also right there on your box you can type

info chmod

for example

or

man adduser

or useradd...i get them mixed up!

[scm]

In your other (now locked, duplicate) thread, someone's reminded me that Linux supports ACLs, which should achieve your aim. man setfacl should get you started.

Steve