How to allow selective access

brokenpromises · 07-29-2007, 10:16 PM

Hello,

For security reasons, I want to create a user and allow full access to the /var/www folder.

Any ideas how I can go about doing this?

Any help appreicated

vjn · 07-30-2007, 01:50 AM

To allow access to /var/www on the linux box, you can create a user and make him the owner of /var/www

For example if you created 'user1' as the new user, this is how you can make him the owner -

Code:

chown -Rv user1 /var/www

Then change the permissions to the directory

Code:

chmod -Rv 700 /var/www

This will give full permission only to the owner, while no permission to others.

VJN
Team SafeSquid

brokenpromises · 07-30-2007, 10:03 PM

Thanks a ton mate, really appreciated.

archtoad6 · 07-31-2007, 06:23 AM

Do you have "users" group?

What is each regular user's primary group?

Is there already a "www" user or group?

While "700" will work, it may be too restrictive; & depending on how your distro handles groups, perhaps "770" may be better.