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Title: Proper permissions for web access to ibay (ibay) ?
Post by: nb69 on September 18, 2004, 05:52:01 PM

Hi all,

If I set permissions for an i-bay (ibay) to be accessible from web but with passwords. why can't users in the proper group access it with their personal credentials?

Or am I not understanding this properly... :|

thx

-nb

Title: Proper permissions for web access to ibay (ibay) ?
Post by: raem on September 18, 2004, 06:35:17 PM

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=24063.0

Title: Proper permissions for web access to ibay (ibay) ?
Post by: nb69 on September 20, 2004, 01:23:26 AM

Hi Ray,

thanks for the reply.

But I think I didn't ask my question properly.

So here goes...

If I create an ibay and set passwrod protection for a group, would it not be logical that user accounts in the mentionned group would have web access to that dir? ie: like setting password protection in apache via .htaccess file?

-nb

Title: Proper permissions for web access to ibay (ibay) ?
Post by: raem on September 20, 2004, 11:59:28 AM

nb69

> ........would it not be logical that user accounts > in the mentionned group would have web access to
> that dir?

By what process of logical deduction did you conclude that ?

If you read the server manager, ibay configuration screen it clearly says:
User access via file sharing or user ftp - select Wrire & Read permissions
Public access via web or anonymous ftp - select None, Internet/Local with or withut password

It means that user access is via (windows) file sharing or ftp
and
web access is public (ie anyone or anonymous).

The Group ownership/user membership only relates to local connections or VPN connections, not web connections.

Title: Proper permissions for web access to ibay (ibay) ?
Post by: nb69 on September 20, 2004, 04:44:56 PM

> By what process of logical deduction did you conclude that ?

When I see: "Public access via web" for me that means, access via web browser.

And then when I see that it can have a property of: ... REQUIRE PASSWORD (relating to the web part...)

Then when I see those elements, I'm thinking something along the lines of apache's htaccess permission system to access the web page... and since it allowed me to set group permissions, I'm also thinking that it could have been smart enough to inherit users from within the group.

what is so flawed with my logic?

That's the reson why I asked in here! If I already knew the answer... I would not have asked.

-nb