You don't have to cd to do things. / in parameters isn't restricted.
This won't restrict him from editing things outside of drupal though. You could use user file ownership and permissions to do that.
Come to think of it, the whole "restrict to one directory" thing is a bit of a red herring for any operating system with relative and absolute paths. Any user can cd into /usr/, but can they edit files in there? Probably not. Any user can create files in /tmp/, but do they cd into /tmp/ when they do so? Probably not. cd is just a convenience, file permissions are what control the actual security.
Better to consider file ownership than what directory he's in. You could make him use a limited user where the drupal folder and things in it belong to his user. He could cd other places, but so what? He wouldn't be able to accomplish much by doing so.
Last edited by Corona688; 08-26-2011 at 03:53 AM..
I have a file ( /tmp/file.txt ) , the file owner is user1:edp , the permission is 644 , I want everyone can overwrite the file but don't change the file owner and permssion , could suggest what can I do ? thx (2 Replies)
there is a directory eg. /home/edp/ , all the files under this directory :
1. the file and directory owner is "user1" ,
2. the permission is 644
I want everyone hv permission to overwrite all files and write a new file to it , but I want the file owner and permssion keep unchange , could... (1 Reply)
Hi Folks
I have a file with the following permission.
-r-sr-lr-- 1 apps appsgp 7612 Dec 19 2001 startup
Any idea what is the in the group means? In my mind I believe I need to be root to set l in the group. Am I right?
I don't have root access now. When I (as apps) a chmod... (2 Replies)
Hi,
When I listed one directory in Sun, it showed that :
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root bsmbin 78004 Oct 21 2004 bsmprsm
I don't know meaning of the character "s" in "rws" above. I have searched in Sun admin documents but no result. Would you please explain it ? :)
Thank you so much. (1 Reply)
Hello,
i need some help/advice on how to solve a particular problem.
these are the users:
|name | group |
---------- ---------------
|boss | department1 |
|assistant | department1 |
|employee | department1 |
|spy | department2 |
this is the... (0 Replies)
hi frnds
can u explain
/etc/shadow file have read and write permissions for root only
but while normal user changes his passwd it also updated in that file whats the logic behind that. (2 Replies)
Hi All,
https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-expert-users/105758-chmod-parent-sub-directories.html
I have to change permission for the directories and subdirectories in single command
when googled i found some updates but i understand what is switch.
If there is a command please... (2 Replies)
I have an application with the user mark and another user james is trying to run the application and ending up with file permission issues.
The user mark has set the umask as 002, I wanted to have a setting so that anyone can run the application without any file permission issues. Can anyone... (2 Replies)
Hello All
I have a file with rw-rw-r permission
I need to mv the file into different directory (dir has rwx-rwx-rwx permission)
with an others permission
The application which is moving the file falls in other group
I am getting the error
mv cannot renamed permission denied
... (12 Replies)
Hi,
Could you please tell me the OS command to grant as similar to below permission?
rwxrwxr-x
OS -- HP-UX
Regards,
Maddy (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Maddy123
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inncheck
INNCHECK(8) System Manager's Manual INNCHECK(8)NAME
inncheck - check inn configuration and database files.
SYNOPSIS
inncheck [ -a ] [ -v ] [ -pedantic ] [ -f ] [ -perm ] [ -noperm ] [ file=value | file ]
DESCRIPTION
Inncheck examines various configuration files and databases and verifies things about them. Things verified depend on the file being
checked, but generally are things like permissions, ownership, syntax errors in config files etc.
Inncheck does not make changes to any files -- it just reports what it thinks may be wrong, and it is up to the operator to fix the prob-
lem.
The set of files checked may be restricted by using file or file=value arguments. For example, putting hosts.nntp causes only the
hosts.nntp(5) file to be checked. Using hosts.nntp=/tmp/hosts.nntp.tst on the command line will cause inncheck to only verify the
hosts.nntp file, and it will perform the checks on the file /tmp/hosts.nntp file instead of the default one.
Valid values for file are:
active
control.ctl
expire.ctl
hosts.nntp
inn.conf
moderators
newsfeeds
overview.fmt
nnrp.access
nntpsend.ctl
passwd.nntp
OPTIONS -a If any ``file'' value or ``file=value'' pairs (see below) are given, then normally only the files they refer to are checked. Use the
``-a'' flag to specify that all files should be checked regardless. In this case the form file=value will be the more useful.
-v Use the ``-v'' option to get more verbose output.
-pedantic
Use the ``-pedantic option to get reports on things that are not necessarily wrong, but may indicate a bad configuration -- such as
inn.conf(5) missing a key.
-f Use the ``-f'' flag to have inncheck print the appropriate chown/chgrp/chmod command necessary to fix a problem that it reports.
Any other output lines will be prefixed with a ``#'' character to make the output be valid input for a shell. Note that the
``-perm'' flag must be used as well when using this flag.
-perm Inncheck checks all files for permission problems. If the ``-perm'' flag is used, then only the files specified by the file or
file=value command line arguments will be checked for problems other than permission problems.
-noperm
To avoid doing any checking of file permissions or ownership, use the ``-noperm'' option.
EXAMPLES
To have inncheck check all files for syntax and permission problems simply:
inncheck
To have inncheck check all files for permission problems and to verify the syntax of the active and hosts.nntp files do:
inncheck -perm active hosts.nntp
To have inncheck check the test newsfeeds file in /var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing, do:
inncheck newsfeeds=/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing
To have inncheck check all the files as it normally does, but to specify a different location for the newsfeeds file, so:
inncheck -a newsfeeds=/var/tmp/newsfeeds.testing
BUGS
If the ``-f'' and ``-perm'' options are used together, along with -a or some ``file'' or ``file=value'' arguments that refer to a file with
a syntax problem, then the output will no longer be valid input for a shell.
HISTORY
Written by Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cygnus.com> and Rich Salz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> This is revision 1.1, dated 1996/10/29.
SEE ALSO active(5), expire.ctl(5), history(5), hosts.nntp(5), inn.conf(5), newsfeeds(5)INNCHECK(8)