@Farzaneh Poorjabar Easiest way to assign access only to a specific directory (say /home/farzaneh) is: Resource path : /home/farzaneh isRecursive: false If you need the access granted recursively to a directory and all directories under it, then Resource path : /home/farzaneh isRecursive:true But, there is a side-effect. Access will be granted to all paths starting with /home/farzaneh There is no explicit way to specify in a ranger policy, if the specified resource is a file or a directory. That leads to these corner cases. You could still get the effect you want by specifying two policies, one with resource as '/home/farzaneh/*', isRecursive = true and another with two resources ['/home/farzaneh', '/home/farzaneh/'] with isRecursive = false. ... View more