Mr. Strockbine wrote: > is there a way to password protect a directory? > for instance there is a single ftp account on > a machine (one user-id/password combo) and its > shared amoung several users. Is it possible for > one user to password protect a directory so the > other users cannot view the contents?
Yes, this is possible. Create a new group via the 'addgroup' command. Then password protect the group with 'passwd -g'. Make the directory permissions be 770, and make it be in that group. Then users type 'newgrp' to log in. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>addgroup demo Adding group demo (102)... Done. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>passwd -g demo Changing the password for group demo New Password: Re-enter new password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>adduser joey demo Adding user joey to group demo... Done. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>mkdir demo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>chmod 770 demo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>chgrp demo demo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>ls -la demo total 3 drwxrwx--- 2 root demo 1024 Nov 1 17:48 ./ drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 2048 Nov 1 17:48 ../ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>cd demo cd: permission denied: demo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>newgrp demo Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>cd demo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/demo>touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/demo>exit # log out to leave the group [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp>cd demo cd: permission denied: demo See the gpasswd man page for more information. -- see shy jo
