Re: Changing permission in user's home directory
On our server we create an user for every of our customer and we run an instance of home-made java application (as the customers respective user). The issue is just who ever set up those servers created a home directory per user and set up everything in that directory. Including static files needed by ngnix for which I need to do something like $chgrp www-data after an update. I'm aware there is no technical reasons for having such a weird directory constellation. The issue is just reorganizing file hierarchies on docents of productive installations is not that easy, so I hoped for an easy work-around for the old installations. At least until the long overdue revision of the update and installation procedure has been done. On Sunday 21 December 2014 02.21:39 David Christensen wrote: > On 12/20/2014 04:11 PM, Peter Gerber wrote: > > I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is > > a subdirectory of a user's home directory. > > Why? To what? E.g. what is the technical requirement(s) that forces > you to change permission of a directory and/or it's contents, and what > must those permissions be? > > > David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201412210315.22386.pe...@arbitrary.ch
Changing permission in user's home directory
I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a subdirectory of a user's home directory. Is there a way to do this in a secure and easy way with the user having full write access to the home directory? Let's assume I would change the permissions as follows $ chgrp -R www-data ~user/subdir $ chmod -R g+rwX ~user/subdir The issue is that the user could do something like this beforehand: $ mv ~user/subdir ~user/subdir2 $ ln -s / ~user/subdir Not a very nice thing to do, is it? Well, I could just change the user's permission for the home directory as follows: $ chown root:users-group ~user $ chmod g+rwx,+t But this seems rather error-prone. Especially because I would have to adjust the permission of quite a lot of directories, some of which are not even in the top level of the users' home directories. Frankly, me forgetting to adjust the permissions of a few directories is just to great. What I now would like to know is, is there an easier way to solve the issue. Like teaching chmod not to follow links. Unfortunately, I haven't found a -- make-sure-as-hell-not-to-follow-links-in-any-way parameter or anything the like. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201412210111.32524.pe...@arbitrary.ch
