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RichardW11
Asked: 2012-04-25 09:11:09 +0800 CST

Creating a Sub-User for Main User | Linux | Permissions

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I am trying to find out how to create ssh users that can work inside my sites directories but not have complete access except for the folders I specify.

The only issue is that I need the sub-users not to create privledge issues. It's like I want a site owner to act like root when it deals with anything in his site folder, created by him or the other workers.

Any suggestions on a stable solution?

Thanks

linux redhat apache-2.2 ssh

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Make the primary group the same for all of these users

    usermod -g users user1
usermod -g users user2
# (etc)

    Set the umask for each user to 0002

    echo 'umask 0002' >> ~user1/.bashrc
echo 'umask 0002' >> ~user2/.bashrc
# (etc)

    Change ownership of files in existing shared directories

    find /dat -exec chgrp -R users * \;
find /dat -exec chmod -R g+w * \;

    Now, files will be created with group "users" and mode 0775. Your users can overwrite each others files.

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