Am Fr, den 16.09.2005 schrieb Brian D. McGrew um 0:31: > My users are not just straight users that get a home directory and > login. I have customers. Each customer has at least one site but most > have several site. Each customer site has multiple users. So for > example > > Customers > | > +--- Site 1 > | +--- User1 > | +--- User2 > | +--- User3 > +--- Site 2 > | +--- User1 > | +--- User2 > | +--- User3 > +--- Site 3 > | +--- User1 > | +--- User2 > | +--- User3 > | +--- CUSTOMER-SUPERUSER > > So each user needs to have their own directory at their respective site > level and be able to get to ../ to the site directory and into their > peers directory but not be able to cross the boundaries of a site. > Unless of course they're designated as a CUSTOMER_SUPERUSER in which > case they'll still have a home directory under their respective site but > be able to access the entire customer specific folder and all that > customers sites and users. > > That takes care of my customers and then I've got my employees who are > in my staff group who need to have access to their real live Unix home > directories as well as global access to the customer file-system. > > I'm hoping that someone has been on a project like this in the past and > can recommend which FTP server to use and how to configure it. > -brian I am very sure that running ProFTPd you can do such kind of setup. I guess Pure-FTPd is capable too. Both are available through the Fedora Extras repository. But let me suggest a different thing - which you may have to explain or even demonstrate your chief. I am thinking of WebDAV. That has some advantages above FTP, as FTP often enough has a problem with firewalling and it requires a client. WebDAV on the other side uses for example the same single port as HTTP (port 80), or if used securely with SSL encryption a (target) port like 443. And you can use WebDAV with what the GUI OS' ship: Windows® explorer, nautilus, konqueror, ... Anyway how you finally set things up (FTP or WebDAV) there is the question of UNIX® filesystem permissions. You at least have to work out a group scheme or even use ACLs. Another thought: I don't know whether you arein task of planning masshosting or a different kind of website hosting. Maybe a CMS with an advanced user permission system is something to consider. I have Zope (maybe together with Plone) in mind. Both applications available through Fedora Extras. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 15:30:41 up 25 days, 12:14, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.06
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