On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:52 PM, P.V.Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need help with permissions for a folder on a server for web hosting.
> The permissions should be secure but must allow for ftp also. It is a
> very basic question, please bear with me.
>
> The web server is apache and the user and group for the web server is
> apache. Pureftpd is used for the ftp server.
>
> Now the domain1.com is being hosted in a folder called domain_1.com and
> domain2.com is being hosted in a folder called domain_2.com.
>
> Thinking of giving the following permission for the folders.
>
> permission      user            group           folder
> drwxrwx---      domain_1.com    domain_1.com    domain_1.com
> drwxrwx---      domain_2.com    domain_2.com    domain_2.com
> drwxrwx---      domain_3.com    domain_3.com    domain_3.com
>
> Then apache will be member of groups, domain_1.com, domain_2.com and
> domain_3.com.
>
> Is this correct and secure? Is there another better way?
>
>
Hi Anthony,
We can use ACL (Access Control List) for more elegant solution to this
filesystem permission.
man setfacl and getfacl.
HTH,
-- 
Cheers,
Fajar Priyanto
Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org
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