Re: access to other user's folders

From: Jem Berkes (jb_dontuse@pc9.org)
Date: 02/14/02 

From: Jem Berkes <jb_dontuse@pc9.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 06:57:09 GMT

> I'm new to security, we are running FreeBSD and have a problem with
> users from several years ago having permissions to all folders and
> files on our webserver. New users (since new admin) don't have the
> access. I can log on as a user with his password and ftp to many
> users' folders I shouldn't be able to have access too. The problem is
> there are many users who can do this. How do I find out who the users
> are and change their permissions? we have about 1000 users with their
> own websites on our server. It seems to me there should be a grep
> command I am unaware of to find out all the users' permissions. Then
> how do I change the permissions when I find out which users have too
> many permissions? Thanks,

It might be as simple as the whole basic UNIX user/group/other security
bits. If I'm in group "user" and another user is also in group "user" and
has a file that's group readable, then I can read it. I'm sure there are
plenty of HOWTOs that cover this sort of thing: try searching google.com
for chmod, chown, UNIX file modes or something. 

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