Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:45:48 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Permissions Question Message-ID: <20010510104548.A14076@everest.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010510162905.01e90d30@mail.ideal.net.au>; from "Chris Aitken" on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:34:45PM %2B1000 References: <007f01c0d919$43328cd0$a47ba8c0@cx159613b> <5.0.2.1.2.20010510162905.01e90d30@mail.ideal.net.au>
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--lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> [20010510 09:33]: writing on the subjec= t 'Permissions Question' Chris> Just a quick question..... Chris>=20 Chris> If I want to enable a user to have full file permission over another= users=20 Chris> files & directories, what would I have to do ? Chris>=20 Chris> Basically, there is a user created on the box to house someones virt= ual=20 Chris> website. This customer has employed another person to design and mod= ify=20 Chris> their site on the server but they dont want him to know their userna= me &=20 Chris> password. Chris>=20 Chris> So what I want to do is, create this guy an account on the box, but = setting=20 Chris> it so that he can modify, delete, move, create & upload any files an= d=20 Chris> directories in their user directory, all from his FTP client, logged= in as=20 Chris> himself. Chris>=20 Chris> I remember reading that someone did this by modifying the /etc/group= file=20 Chris> but I couldnt find any info on how this can be done. Chris>=20 Chris>=20 Chris> Any suggestions ? I would go ahead and create the user. After that I would give him access to the directory in question by chown username:groupname directory After that (with my FTP setup where you are not allowed to descend the directories above yours) I would cd to the user's new directory and make a symlink to the other directory. I haven't tested this but I have a feeling it should work. D=3D/here/is/the/old/directory adduser wash cd /home chown -R wash:user $D cd /home/wash ln -s $D Company_files Now if wash FTPs, he can also cd Company_files and do whatever he wishes, including rm ;-) Of course I stand corrected - I haven't tested this. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286, 00100-NAIROBI,KE. The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election. --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6+kcsn7LIsuxjem8RApkyAJwM2Kw/XSz7+bFcj/IyDo/IRUcflgCgu7BJ Ytt7geNCXKEtpGNiADVvS3s= =cXTL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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