04-24-2009
automatically change owner and group
We have a program that when a new account is created using the webpage it creates a new directory on the linux filesystem for the account. The problem is the process that creates the directory is as root user, as I want ftpuser to be able to login I have to manually login and chown -R the /opt/account directory.
drwxr-xr-x 4 ftpuser ftpuser 4096 Sep 12 2007 1
drwxr-xr-x 4 ftpuser ftpuser 4096 Apr 24 08:18 10
drwxr-xr-x 4 ftpuser ftpuser 4096 Sep 12 2007 1002
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 12 2007 1003
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 12 2007 1004
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 12 2007 1005
What the best way to fix this. I was think a script ran in cron, but this is only ran once a minute and not ideal. Another idea was use the watch command with a nohup in the background.
Any help appreciated.
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st_snapshot
ST_SNAPSHOT(1) systraq ST_SNAPSHOT(1)
NAME
st_snapshot - calculate checksum and stat ownership and permissions of files
SYNOPSIS
ST_SUM=sha256sum st_snapshot patterns homepatterns
DESCRIPTION
st_snapshot calculates checksums and stats ownership and permissions of critical system files.
This script is typically run in either root-mode or public-mode. Running this script in root-mode requires root priviliges. One is
adviced to set up a dedicated user account for running this script in public mode.
In root-mode, the files snapshot_root.list and snapshot_root.homelist are typically passed as arguments. These pattern files are read by
the script and contain names of files and directories; listing a directory in such a pattern file is equivalent to listing all files which
live in the directorytree with this directory as root.
snapshot_root.list could e.g. read
# snapshot_root.list - files and directories we wanna get
# monitored: we wanna get a note once these files, or any file
# under these directories, gets created, gets rm-ed, gets
# permissions or contents changed. these notices will not
# include the possibly secret contents of these files
#
# this file gets read by st_systraq
/etc/group
/etc/gshadow
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny
/etc/hosts.equiv
/etc/lilo.conf
/etc/passwd
/etc/postfix/server.pem
/etc/shadow
/etc/skel
/etc/ssh
Equivalent files snapshot_pub.list and snapshot_pub.homelist should be on the system. These files should contain all worldreadable to be
monitored files. This allows for running this script as root only in those cases where it's needed: when reading files, readable for root
only.
The homelist files contain files and directories which should get monitored for every homedirectory on the system. snapshot_pub.homelist
could e.g. contain:
.profile
.cshrc
.tcshrc
.login
.logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.exrc
.nexrc
As a special case, when the environment variable ST_OPHOMES is set to a non-empty string (typically when running in public mode), we stat
the permissions on all homedirectories themselves.
The produced snapshot is printed to stdout. The output when running in public mode could look like:
# ownership and permissions of homedirs
drwxr-xr-x root root /bin
drwxr-xr-x root root /dev
drwxr-sr-x root staff /home
drwxr-sr-x joostvb joostvb /home/joostvb
drwxr-xr-x root root /usr/sbin
drwxr-xr-x root root /var
# sha256sum of critical pub files
4d3cd13d6dbc10e2e3ccb9477cbc9eb9b76302454c276d5771ae0b10a5fbb4d2 /home/joostvb/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
eb8d83e0246f761a21bdfb13a03fac634ed7c3b7dde4c2efddd7b2838d32596f /var/qmail/alias/.bashrc
4e371f9a11f5a2464d3d5c952e58e24f73b377d33767ed93b2082fcb59a647fe /etc/zlogin
# ownership and permissions of critical pub files
-rw-rw-r-- joostvb joostvb /home/joostvb/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r-- joostvb joostvb /home/joostvb/.ssh/authorized_keys
ENVIRONMENT
ST_OPHOMES - non-empty in case permissions on all homedirectories should be printed
ST_SUM - command for calculating file checksums. E.g. sha256sum, sha512sum, sha384sum, sha224sum or sha1sum.
SEE ALSO
The systraq manual.
VERSION
This manpage: $Id: st_snapshot.pod 374 2008-12-14 08:47:32Z joostvb $
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008 Joost van Baal
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, check with
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
AUTHOR
Joost van Baal <joostvb-systraq-20041015@mdcc.cx>
20081217 2008-12-15 ST_SNAPSHOT(1)