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chwn user folder<br />
chmod a-rwx folder<br />
chmod u+r folder<br />

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chwn user folder
chmod a-rwx folder
chmod u+r folder


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If the folder belongs to the user:<br />
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chmod u+r folder<br />
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If the folder not belongs to the user, check the group owner and add the user to the group.<br />
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usermod -G groupname username<br />
chmod g+r folder<br />
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If the folder belongs to the user:

chmod u+r folder

If the folder not belongs to the user, check the group owner and add the user to the group.

usermod -G groupname username
chmod g+r folder



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I am new to the Unix world so please bare with me. But what if I don't want to give the whole group read permissions. I just want to grant user A read access to only one of User B folders and that's it.
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I am new to the Unix world so please bare with me. But what if I don't want to give the whole group read permissions. I just want to grant user A read access to only one of User B folders and that's it.

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If you want only A and B to have access, you should chgrp it to a group containing only A and B
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If you want only A and B to have access, you should chgrp it to a group containing only A and B

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In Unix how to a grant a specific user &quot;read&quot; access to &quot;one&quot; specific folder???
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In Unix how to a grant a specific user "read" access to "one" specific folder???

Permissions

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.