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Andrew Fashion
Asked: 2011-05-03 21:02:44 +0800 CST

How can I make a user and give read only access?

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I need to give SSH read only access to a certain directory so they can look at my PHP code.

The directory is /var/www/html/websitenamehere/

How can I make a user and let them login via SSH to see that directory and read it only? Is that possible?

I'm use to only logging in as root.

centos ssh user-management

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Something like:

    • Create the user 
      useradd readonlyuser
    • Enter its password if you want password auth, otherwise, setup SSH keys 
      passwd readonlyuser
    • Give Read and Execution permission to the directory Owner and all its sub-folders and files 
      chmod -R o+rx /var/www/html/websitenamehere/
    • Set the home directory of the user 
      usermod -d /var/www/html/websitenamehere/ readonlyuser

    Or you could just make a tarball of the filesystem and mail it to the user with something like 

    tar cfvz websitenamehere.tar.gz /var/www/html/websitenamehere/
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