user permissions
 

hello people.

I was wondering if anyone know a link to a good tutorial on setting user permissions.
I need to grant a few users access to there own apache dir, so they can upload there webpage.
Also i need to remove users permissions to view home dirs other than there own. (pretty annoying that every added user can view root's home dir)

its called security, not annoyance....
anyways just to start you off....
type these commands in terminal:
man chown
man chmod
man chgrp

okay thanks.

and it is called annoyance when all users can access root's home dir. that is NOT security

Yeah, I was thinking either that was a typo, or DrOzz just misunderstood. ;)

If you have problems understanding anything, feel free to post back, permissions are easily confused at first.

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thanks, but i think i got them working :)
users cant access eachothers home dirs now, so thats good

another question .. how do i get the new folders made by users to have the same permissions as the other folders i just changed?

If these are sub folders, look into the 'sticky' bit, or you can change ALL permissions on newly created files by looking at /etc/profile OR ~/.bash_profile (assuming your shell is bash..)

Folders = directories ~ files
Linux sees everything as a file, even devices and directories..

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okay man, thanks again :)

You're welcome :)

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