I'm setting up a small web server to run on my home cable internet connection. I'll probably have no more than 10 users and will only run http and ssh daemons, but I would like my users to have access to all the normal shell tools.
When I installed Cygwin on this Win2K machine (great job on the installer, by the way!), it set everything up with permissions set to 777 on everything. I would of course like to keep my users (mischievous friends) from altering other users' web pages, etc, and setting permissions for home/username/public_html and the like has been pretty easy. What I'm not clear on is how to set the permissions on the myriad of other files and directories so that they're basically at a minimum without fouling their function. I've set programs like shutdown.exe to 700 (root owned, of course), but I'm afraid to mindlessly chmod 755 entire directories for fear that I'm fouling function or giving too much away in some cases. (There are a whole lot of files for a newbie like me to learn about.) Finally, the question: Is there a guide or tool available that will help me go through and properly set all the permissions for all of the files? I've spent some time looking all over the 'net, but the keywords involved in such a search seem to lead me everywhere except to what I'm looking for. Thanks so much, Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
