Directory Restriction

sunil_j

Hi Guys,

I want to restrict a particular group of users from adding or editing any particular file into a directoty.

To explain in detail, I have a directory in which I have my web content with all html and images. I wish to restrict programmers from editing or adding any gif. jpg files into images dierctory.

Is there any way I can impose such file/folder level permission. Is there any way submit.cfg can help me ?

Let me have all your inputs on this

Regards
Sunil

Migrateduser

If you are running under Unix, you can set OS level permissions to that particulary directory, of course, groups and users would have to be correctly set up so these permissions work. I know that It works fine on Unix, but it is not the same case on Windows I believe, at leaset we had a lot of troubles implementing these kind of security with windows. An unix example would be:

$ ls -l
drwxrwx--- cmaster:content data
drwxrwx--- gifmaster:giffers images
drwxrwx--- dmaster:doxers docs
drwxrwxrw- tsmaster:teamsite templatedata

for the first directory, only the people belonging to the "content" group will have access to it, the same can be said for groups "giffers" and "doxers" and their respective users.

To go further, if everybody belongs to the group Teamsite, they will have access to templatedata, but then, you could set permissions on each category so only people allowed will access to whichever category they need to.

As you can see you can fine tune permissions on teamsite using this system. As a matter of fact I wonder if for certain configurations it is necessary to divide the whole thing into branches and workareas, as this permission schema works just in the same exact way, and for the flamers, I said "UNDER SOME SETUPS", which means "NOT EVERYTIME"

Brgrds