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Old 06-07-2011
Parent/child directory permission
Hi there,

I want to restrict a users account to only a subdirectory, but it does not seem to be working.

For example
/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4

user A is only allowed to do things in dir4. the permission is 777.
i've set the permissions to 700 on dir3, dir2, and dir1 to prevent them from going to there.

The problem is, now user A cannot access dir4 (cd /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4 gives a permission denied error).

I have to set dir3, dir2, dir1 to 755 in order for it to work, but I do not want them to be able to see those directories.

Do i have something set up wrong?

thanks!
# 2  
Old 06-07-2011
Quote:
Permissions take a different meaning for directories. Here's what they mean:
  • read determines if a user can view the directory's contents, i.e. do ls in it.
  • write determines if a user can create new files or delete file in the directory. (Note here that this essentially means that a user with write access toa directory can delete files in the directory even if he/she doesn't have write permissions for the file! So be careful with this.)
  • execute determines if the user can cd into the directory.
You can
Code:
chmod -R 711 dir1
chmod 777 /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4

# 3  
Old 06-07-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by newbie121
The problem is, now user A cannot access dir4 (cd /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4 gives a permission denied error).

I have to set dir3, dir2, dir1 to 755 in order for it to work, but I do not want them to be able to see those directories.

Do i have something set up wrong?
Nope. For a directory to become the current working directory requires that the user have search/execute permissions on every component of the pathname.

Regards and welcome to the forum,
Alister
# 4  
Old 06-08-2011
thanks guys!

Just adding execute, instead of read/execute was enough permission, and wont allow the directories to be displayed.
 
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