[SunHELP] Directory Permissions

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yeah, but how does that explain the problem and stop the user from
viewing other dirs and files around the logging dir?

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Haydar Yilmaz wrote:

>
> I advice you to create a symbolic link to the file/directory in /opt,
> instead of changing the permission. You can create the link in the home
> directory of the user, and he/she can use the link for the log files.
>
>
> >From: <daniel at shore.net>
> >Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> >To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: [SunHELP] Directory Permissions
> >Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 14:54:25 +1200 (NZST)
> >
> >Hey, I have 2 clustered machines running an app, for some reason the app
> >forces you to put some logs in /var and other logs in it's /opt dir.
> >
> >There are a group of people that need these logs but aren't allowed to
> >view anything else. So being the quickest thing to do I changed
> >permissions on the base app dir to drwxr-x--x so they could go into the
> >dir they needed and only to the log dir and not see what other dirs there
> >were.
> >
> >This worked fine on one of the machines, but on the 2nd it stopped a
> >script being run by owner of the directory.
> >
> >All the script was doing was ftping to a site, changing it's local dir,
> >downloading and then deleting off the remote machine. But on this 2nd
> >machine it got to changing it's local directory and then bombed out
> >telling you "invalid spawn id(6)"
> >
> >Also, if you ran this script manually it did the same thing, bombed out
> >and then you couldn't do certain things, like use man pages it said
> >"getcwd: permission denied", you couldn't change your password etc.
> >
> >Basically, these 2 machines should be exactly the same, the script on
> >either machine _are_ exactly the same, so i'm wondering what someone has
> >done, either myself or someone else.
> >
> >Any ideas would be great, thanks
> >
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