Limitation for User

edwardspl at ita.org.mo edwardspl at ita.org.mo
Mon Feb 19 17:19:17 UTC 2007


Les Mikesell wrote:

> edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> 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 ).
>
>
> Root automatically has full access and doesn't need special
> consideration. One of the other users (svradmin) can be the owner and
> have rwx permission. To allow access by additional users you can add
> group rwx permission and put the users in the of the files. Having a
> single other user is a slightly special case where you could give
> edward's group to the file instead of the other way around. In any
> case you need to be careful when creating new files to set the correct
> group.
>
Hello,

Do you means (operation steps ) :
chown -R svradmin.edward /usr/local/proftpd/etc
chmod 660 /usr/local/proftpd/etc/proftpd.conf

So, Only svradmin, edward and root user they can access to the directory
and read / modify the file, right ?

Edward.




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