Posted by Harlan Messinger on 11/07/06 03:53

John Salerno wrote:
> Stuart Miller wrote:
>
>> Certainly what you want is possible, and there are a number of
>> different ways to achieve it.
>
> Thanks for the response. My point in asking is just that I am
> responsible for updating the website of this particular lab, yet when it
> comes to uploading the files I have to send them to our IT person so he
> can do it. I tried to get access myself, but they said there's no way to
> give me access to *just* our folder, and not the whole department
> hierarchy in between, which of course I found very hard to believe.

In Windows, at least, it isn't true. You can give a user write
permission on one directory without giving write permission on parent
directories.

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