Limitation for User

[Vivek J. Patankar]

edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
> I want to how to config the limitation ( permission ) from the following ?
> 
> [svradmin at svr1 etc]$ pwd
> /usr/local/proftpd/etc
> [svradmin at svr1 etc]$ ls -l
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1894 Feb 20 00:22 proftpd.conf
> [svradmin at svr1 etc]$
> 
> Only allow user root, svradmin and edward they can access to 
> /usr/.local/proftpd/etc/ ( directory ) and read / modify the config file 
> ( such as proftpd.conf ).

Kernel 2.6 onwards supports filesystem ACLs. You can start with the 
below article. It's a bit dated, it was written when FC2 was current, 
but it should work.

http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/ACL/linux-acl.html

I haven't played around with filesystem ACLs... yet.

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Regards
Vivek J. Patankar

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