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Title: Owner of Ibay
Post by: PsyDuck on October 06, 2004, 09:28:45 AM

Is there a cfg/template/script that sets the owner of Ibays when being cretated?

I would like the Ibay to be owned by the Ibay-user in order to  allow Ibay-user to have write permissions.

Title: Owner of Ibay
Post by: bobk on October 06, 2004, 01:39:15 PM

PsyDuck,

I really hate to say this but you need to read Chapter 14 of the SME Server User Manual (http://mabit.net/sme/chpt-14.0.html) .

This explains in detail how to set-up "i-bays" for almost any purpose. If it doesn't answer your questions then come back here and I'll do my best to help you.

Title: Owner of Ibay
Post by: PsyDuck on October 06, 2004, 02:09:12 PM

bobk,

That did actually explain the use of Ibays rather well. To bad I couldn't find the solution to my problem.

I would like to change some template/script/cfg to automatically set the Ibay-user as owner of the data in the Ibay when being created/modified. As of today the SME sets admin as owner and the only way I found to change this is to use 'chown -R' ....thus I guess it will be changed back to admin whenever I modify the Ibay in the webmanager?

Perhaps there is a valid (security) reason for not having this behaviour?

Title: Owner of Ibay
Post by: Reinhold on October 07, 2004, 03:08:19 PM

psyduck,

Quote

write access: the administrator can control access to the i-bay by associating the i-bay with a group. All groups previously created in the groups section of the server manager will appear in the drop-down menu under "group" in this section. In addition, two default groups will always appear - "administrator" and "everyone" (meaning all users, whether on the local network or on the Internet).

"C" SME CAN DO...
Note: The hierarchy of ownership distribution in Linux features GROUPS (of users) and
the above excerpt of what you already did read (?) clearly describes "how to do" it:
= make an i-bay  "my-ibay" ;-)
owned by group "mine" ( see write-acces via panel "Information Bays") :-P
and user "you" (or is it "me" )is (maybe the only) member of group "mine"   8-)

Regards
Reinhold

PS: To get the basics behind this straigh, you might, from the commandline of your server, type
man chown
and you will read much more.

Title: Owner of Ibay
Post by: PsyDuck on October 08, 2004, 08:21:00 AM

Perhaps I should explain what I want to accomplish.

I want the following permissions on the Ibay.

'Ibay-user' read / write
'Group x' read / write
'Everyone' no access

Since the Ibay user doesn't show up in the userpanel I can't (and don't want to) add it to the group.

Regards
Jonas

Title: Owner of Ibay
Post by: Reinhold on October 08, 2004, 02:04:59 PM

Jonas,

:-D Sometime one's blocked so pls. take it as a personal request: :-D
Recheck/read a little (more) about "permissions" in Linux/SME.
As I wrote man chown   or   info chown may work wonders...
After this please look again at the setting write:group read:group
See bobk. Me2thinks the SME manual is clear on this  ... :roll:
Let's stop here in "Experienced"  :-(

Title: Owner of Ibay
Post by: PsyDuck on October 11, 2004, 10:48:12 AM

Sorry if I seem a bit hard to explain to, or if I just can't get my head out of my ***. :-)

I'm quite familiar with both chown/chmod and linux in general (not an expert though).

After I've done some research I've found that the Ibay user is automatically added to the group (which I didn't know) and the issue seems to be with Proftpd and Anonymous user login.

I apologise for the trouble, but sometimes it can be hard to explain the real problem.

/Jonas