GingerRobot Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Long story short, i'm pretty sure the only way to restrict access to a folder to a bunch of users would be to add them to a group and set the group of the folder, which requires root access. Is this correct? Full explanation, i'm just starting a group project at university and it was my intention to set up a Subversion repository on my university's server. Given that there is another group doing a similar project, I'd like to make sure that they couldn't get desperate and copy the entire repository over and view/steal our files. However, i don't have root access(obviously!) so I cannot create a group for the members of our team. Do I have any options? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadeemshafi9 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 i think you can password protect the folders, but yes you need to be root, create a group then change a bunch of users groups to this group then give that folder that group, then create a test account with another group and test it out. Give read write execute to group and nothing to everyone else on that folder. I think someone will come and give you a much better expl in a bit . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Yes, you should organise the users into groups and then set the permissions suitably as 750 or similar. Users would have to be manually assigned to a particular group when they are first setup (unless you have ldap details etc.). Look into the sudo command. Users can be granted fine grained access to certain commands. -steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerRobot Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 Without root access it's a bit difficult for me to do it. But in any case, i've arranged for a group to be created for this. Thanks anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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