You would have to write a JNI library to do it. I imagine if you look
around you might find one already available. Doing this of course ties
your app to Linux but that is a lot better then your previous situation.
:-)

-- 
Kimbro Staken
Chief Technology Officer  
dbXML Group L.L.C         
http://www.dbxmlgroup.com 

Joel Dudley wrote:
> 
> Our company is currently migrating our technology from NT/Novell to Linux.
> Recently, a developer approached me with a java on linux question that I
> could not answer. He was writing a java app that will run in a JVM on linux
> and access the linux file system using java IO. Now we dont want anything
> like that running as root so what is the best way for java io to interact
> with user/group permissions on the file system? Apperently when this app was
> on novell he was able to use a novell user class. Thanks for reading my
> post.
> 
> - Joel Dudley
> 
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