topic Re: ftp server that provides very granular permissions administration in Operating System - Linux

ftp server that provides very granular permissions administration

Maaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:17:23 GMT

I need a ftp server(commercial either no prblm) that provides following facilities in a GUI(Permission settings through mouse clicks i.e GUI based permission administration).

1, administrator can grant access on any folder in the system to any user.
e.g james is allowed to access any folders below /opt/ibm while david can access any thing below /data/tax.

2, admin can allow james to only create files, but james cant delete files

3, admin can allow a user to create files but once file has been created that user cant append on that file.

4, admin can allow a user to just create new folders under /data/tax, but that user is not allowed to create new files under /data/tax

a ftp that provides such type of granular level permissions using mouse click(GUI) is required.

please help asap.

Regards

Re: ftp server that provides very granular permissions administration

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:39:29 GMT

Shalom,

The ftp server does not do this.

The root systems administrator does this.

Everything you ask for can be done with careful application of group and user permissions.

You may need to use ACL but I doubt it.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/admin-primer/ch-acctsgrps.html

http://www.zzee.com/solutions/linux-permissions.shtml

You do not need a product. You need a plan.

SEP

Re: ftp server that provides very granular permissions administration

Huc_1 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:20:52 GMT

I want to answer webmin ( http://www.webmin.com/ ) but I did try this way back and found it good, and I suppose it has improve over time, but I prefer character interface myself.

In short follow the link and see if it meet requirement, sorry for such a no commitement answer.

Back then I found webmin to be very modular you could tailor it ... up to a certain point, but then as usual it got to the point where I wanted it to do specifics and had to invoke home written scripts... I figured it was faster to just use character interface.

enjoy life

Jean-Pierre Huc

Re: ftp server that provides very granular permissions administration

Maaz — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:52:49 GMT

Thanks Dear SEP
>The ftp server does not do this

One of my customer is using such a FTP Server on windows... I forget the name.

anyway thanks

Re: ftp server that provides very granular permissions administration

Alan_152 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:26:46 GMT

The MS-IIS FTP server has many of these features, but those features are also interconnected with the OS rights and permissions schema -- none of which will help you in a *nix environment, unfortunately.

Your best bet might be SCP/SFTP combined with a good set of ACLs, chmod rules, and chgrp rules.

Re: ftp server that provides very granular permissions administration

Heironimus — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:53:13 GMT

Controlling access at that level shouldn't be too difficult with proftpd, and probably most other reasonably advanced FTP servers. A pointy-clicky configuration tool is where you're probably in trouble. You're on a UNIX-like platform, and UNIX people file complaints when vendors push GUI and web-based tools on them (usually because they end up making things harder instead of easier).