Sorting out owner and group permissions...

[Mister Olli]

hi,

I have the same problem on some fileservers I do the administration for.
But in my case the users send the files via SSH to the server.

A solution for this, based on some OS mechanism would be really
great :-)

Anyone ever had to solve that problem?

Regards,
---
Mr. Olli


On Mo, 2009-04-20 at 15:21 -0400, John Almberg wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:48 PM, John Almberg wrote:
> 
> > I have a directory called 'scans' that is owned by 'master', but I  
> > want to allow 'customer' to FTP images to that directory. This is  
> > the way I have permissions set:
> >
> > # ls -l
> > drwxrwxr-x  5 master  customer     251904 Apr 20 10:29 scans
> >
> > The problem is that when customer ftp's a file to the directory,  
> > the permissions end up like this:
> >
> > -rw-r-----  1 customer customer  772584 Apr 20 15:28 image.jpg
> >
> > When a process run by 'master' tries to copy this file to another  
> > directory (also owned by master), I get the following:
> >
> > # cp scans/image.jpg thumbs/image.jpg
> > cp: scans/image.jpg: Permission denied
> >
> > The only solution that occurs to me smells like a newbie kludge: to  
> > have a root cron job periodically chown all the images to  
> > master:customer. This seems like the proverbial sledgehammer. There  
> > must be a better way?
> >
> > Any thoughts, much appreciated!
> 
> Well, I did figure out one way that seems reasonable... since I am  
> using pureftpd, I changed the upload mask in the pureftpd  
> configuration so new files are created with permissions like:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 customer  customer   93177 Apr 20 20:12 image.jpg
> 
> This seems like a pretty good approach, but if there's a better one,  
> I'm all ears!
> 
> -- John
> 
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