gregor Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 Is there a way to provide secure file transfer on Mandrake Linux? Users need to be limited to their own home directories. I could use "msec 4" for this, but then some things don't work (e.g. pop3). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux_learner Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 proftp, sftp, better still chroot the ftp. create a jail. best of all, dont do file sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 Normally you would set trhe permissions so that they can only access their homefirectory. So if you have a group users for al your users, then I suppose you would set the permissions of the directories that have as group users to execute(in teh group-part..so permissions(x is userpart): x10) and nothing more. Ofcourse if they can also belong to other groups, you have to look at those groups too and I suppose do the same ). This will let them exceute everything they could ealier, but they can't write to or read the directory-contents except of their own home-directory. In every home directory stuff with group user doesn't need to have any permission for the group-part. Am I right? I was wondering. Can you limit useraccess like this (to their home-directory ..the easy way then). The home-directory is normally a partition. Can't you set permissions on the partition-part? But I think the above is better and if this is also possible ..a combination. Is it filesharing on a lan, or the internet. What king ease of use do you want? Else like linux_leaner said ..secure ftp or so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux_learner Posted December 20, 2003 Report Share Posted December 20, 2003 I was wondering. Can you limit useraccess like this (to their home-directory ..the easy way then). The home-directory is normally a partition. Can't you set permissions on the partition-part? But I think the above is better and if this is also possible ..a combination. thats why i mentioned chroot, a jail. look into it. that is, if you must do file sharing, your safest answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 I never tried it myself, but there is a command called scp (secure copy if I'm not mistaken, with which you can copy files between computer), maybe worth looking?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 (edited) P.S.: can someone delete this post..it was in the wrong topic... Edited December 30, 2003 by Michel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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