Linux file and folder permissions.
 

Hi,

This is my first time posting on this forum. I need some guidance on how to set up a directory so that a user can do any files changes and can access everything inside the directory except download and upload files and directories.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Kartik Sadhukhan

Hi, and welcome here, at LQ!

The permissions on directories and files do not influence the network communication (upload and download) at all.
Would be nice to give us more details about your environment, system, OS, use case and actually what do you want to achieve.

Yes, more details are needed as to distro, including version, and which software is in question. However, just a wild guess, you might be able to restrict a program slightly using AppArmor. It has very good, fine-grained control over file system access per program while it's networking, however, is only either on or off.

Hi all,

Thank you for your prompt response and for the warm welcome. An AWS Lightsail-hosted Magento website is running on a Bitnami LAMP server. The OS information is attached. I have a developer to whom I want to give access to Magento's root directory, which is /opt/bitnami/apache/htdocs in my case. We want to allow the developer full access to the code so that he or she can make changes to the code, but we do not want them to download or upload anything onto the server.

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Regards,
Kartik Sadhukhan

Either you've explained badly, or you don't understand what you're asking.


Instead of trying to give them restricted access, a better avenue is probably to put a copy of the code under source control (e.g. Git), and give the developer commit access to that repository, but not access to the code on the server.

Then, have someone you trust review the changes they make, and (once verified) update the webroot from the repository as required.