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I am using CentOS 5.x. I would like to give a user permission to write on the /home directory. Do I have to make it a sudoer? Or is there any other better way for that?
Nandini Bhaduri
Posted 2012-01-06T11:32:36.560
Reputation: 111
Giving a user permission to the /home directory
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It is not advised to give a user besides root access to the whole /home dir. Ask yourself if it's necessary to have access to /home.
You can:
make the user a member of the group set on /home (default is root)
give everyone access to /home with
chmod(most certainly not advised!)
Robert
Posted 2012-01-06T11:32:36.560
Reputation: 826
Perhaps you should explain a little bit more why the user needs to access the /home directory, it is not usual and can be a serious security risk. – jhcaiced – 2012-01-06T12:58:54.247
@jhcaiced +1. To share data safely between users, make sure they belong to a common group and grant permissions to this group, to write to the shared directory owned by that group. – None – 2012-01-06T15:09:52.263
A bit more info - if you give them permission to add to this dir, they can delete from this dir too, meaning they can wipe out every user here, not something that is suggested – Rich Homolka – 2012-01-06T16:29:10.577
well...its like i want this user to be a domain manager, who can access all the domains and edit it from a website, kind of a whm thing, just my own. – Nandini Bhaduri – 2012-01-08T07:21:25.400