Re: [cobalt-developers] Qube3: Giving & Limiting Directory Access thru FTP

[Harald Kapper <hk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:51:53 -0500, you wrote:

>I need to give a user ftp access to the web files (because they are the web
>designer) but not access to everything else.  I have the Qube set up right
>now where that all users are locked in their default directories and cannot
>go up the tree.  I thought about changing the users directory (in the
>etc/passwd file but then if another admin deleted that user for some reason
>our entire web directory would be wiped out, correct?  This one is really
>stumping me.  If anyone can help that would be great.

hi
again one should decide probably not to post to developers for this one :-)

why don't you simply create a user-account for your webdesigner and do
a symlink to the home-web or why not even have a staging-production-thing,
where the designer put their files into their user-account and you furnish
them up when the deal is done?

hth
hk