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Old 04-12-2006, 03:45 PM   #1
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User with read-only permission for whole filesystem?


Hi,
Is there any way I can give a user read-only permission for the whole filesystem so that they can view the contents of other users' home directories and the like? I am trying to work out a remote backup scheme where data is copied between two machines via password-less ssh, and I would like to keep the users involved relatively crippled.
 
Old 04-12-2006, 04:45 PM   #2
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As a follow-up:
Would it be a bad idea to run an rsync server allowing only a few certain ip addresses to view the entire directory structure in read-only mode?
 
  


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