[BlueOnyx:00569] Re: Brian type permissions question..

[Jeff Jones]

I'm probably going to make people scream and run for the hills by  
saying this - but here is how we manage files on our BO box:

We have a centralized FTP server called 'ServU' (made by Rhinosoft).  
We create user accounts  / domains on this, and then 'map in' file  
shares from various servers to user groups / accounts. These shares  
appear as folders local to the FTP server - so it's just like you're  
FTPing to the actual ServU server. Also - perhaps if you have 5  
servers, you can map all five server folders into the one account, all  
on the one login. You can also keep a close eye on what's going on via  
the admin console, plus check network usage (and limit it) all in the  
one place.

Now BQ / BO we use Samba to create the shares.

ServU gives people access to all of this via HTTPS, FTP, SFTP/SSH - so  
it's a very nice way of giving people access to stuff, without having  
to present FTP ports on the actual server to the internet.

The ServU server then sits behind an Application Accelerator which  
does some clever connection management / application fire-walling  
stuff etc.

It's a bit complicated to get working but very nice to use!

Phew. I think I need a rest after explaining all of that...

Jeff

On 18 Feb 2009, at 21:00, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:

> Michael Stauber wrote:
>> Hence we may go another route here: Add a checkbox to the GUI where  
>> the
>> siteAdmin user (or higher)  can toggle all files and folders of the  
>> webspace
>> back and forth between being owned by siteAdmin and/or Apache.
>>
>> If done that way you could simply upload something by FTP and then  
>> toggle that
>> checkbox in the GUI and everything will be chown'ed in a fashion  
>> that your PHP
>> script is happy.
>
> That would be a neat trick.
> If it could also be implemented with some sort of file manager, that
> would be really nice.  (Not sure why, but some of our customers really
> prefer a web-based file manager to using an FTP client.)
>
> Something like: http://www.solitude.dk/filethingie/tour
>
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