[SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread Voytek
I need to setup a couple of users for access to a project, ftp and shell aceess. using webmin, I've edited home dir to '/home/project/www' (from /home/username) (hmmm, why did the prompt change to 'bash-2.05a$' ?)(after altering home dir ?) is that a 'good idea' ? or, should I leave home dir as

Re: [SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:49:13PM +, Voytek wrote: > using webmin, I've edited home dir to > '/home/project/www' (from /home/username) > > (hmmm, why did the prompt change to 'bash-2.05a$' ?)(after altering home > dir ?) Because the prompt is probably set in /etc/bashrc sourced from $HOME/.

Re: [SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11-12-2003 01:49:13 AM: > I need to setup a couple of users for access to a project, ftp and shell > aceess. > > using webmin, I've edited home dir to > '/home/project/www' (from /home/username) > > (hmmm, why did the prompt change to 'bash-2.05a$' ?)(after altering ho

Re: [SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread Mike MacCana
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 15:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11-12-2003 01:49:13 AM: > > > I need to setup a couple of users for access to a project, ftp and shell > > aceess. > > > > using webmin, I've edited home dir to > > '/home/project/www' (from /home/username) > > >

Re: [SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-09 Thread Mike MacCana
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 03:04, Voytek wrote: > ** Reply to note from Mike MacCana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:09:47 > +1100 > > > > What does the original poster actually want to do? Allow people to > > upload files to a public server? > > > > The best thing would be to use SFTP. I

Re: [SLUG] editing users' home path, is that a 'GI' ?

2003-12-10 Thread Voytek
** Reply to note from Mike MacCana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:25:35 +1100 > > no public access, I need to allow 2 or 3 users upload to a particular (web) > > directory , rather that, their home dir, (and, me needing to unarchive/copy > > from their home dir) > > What OS do the c