How do I change user permissions in telnet?

[Madnick]

OK. That is about the question.
I want to create a user account that has permissions to a certain file folder only, and not for example to the music, pictures and movies folder.
At the moment when I try to change the permissions for those folders in the web GUI, I only get "changing permissions failed" or something like that as a result.

So how do I change the permissions to those folders using telnet?

As a sidenote I could say that I have only two accounts in my B3 at the moment. An "administrator" and one user account with SSH. I do not have an owner account, since I do not know how to create one.
Maybe I could change the permissions in the web GUI as an "owner"???

[Cheeseboy]

Hi again,

You will not be able to connect to your B3 via telnet unless you have installed a telnet daemon.
You will have to use ssh.
Regarding changing the permissions, look into chmod, either by doing:

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man chmod

or probably more helpful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod

But why don't you ask the obvious question?
Why does the web interface fail? It doesn't for me...

Best regards,

Cheeseboy

[RandomUsername]

When connecting via SSH (not TELNET) these are the commands you want (run as root by doing

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su
[root password]

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adduser

Creates a new user but you're best off doing that via the web interface (using the admin account).

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chown user:user filename

Would change permissions on a file to be exclusively accessible by that one user.

If doing it for a directory you'd need this:

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chown -R user:user dirname

the -R applies the settings to all subdirectories and files.

The reason you're getting the permissions error in the web interface is probably because you're using your normal user account and you don't have the permissions. Have you tried with the admin account?

If you want a new user to not have permissions to access your /home/storage/pictures or whatever you'd need to make sure said user isn't in the "users" group as those directories are owned by that group.

To do that you need to do this:

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usermod -G user user

This will make the user a member of their own group only.

[Madnick]

OK. I will give that a try. At the moment I'm at an other location, so we will see later.
I get the same error message regarding the permissions when logged in as an admin, so that is why I was asking other methods.
Why I can't change the permissions as an admin... No clue...
Is there a way to give the admin account more rights some way?

[Cheeseboy]

I really think you should concentrate on trying to find out what the problem is, rather than trying to work around it.

As root:

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tail -f /var/log/syslog

Then try to change the permissions using the web interface, get the error, and let us know what goes into the syslog.

Best regards,

Cheeseboy

[RandomUsername]

Also, what's the output of

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ls -l /home/

and

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ls -l /home/storage/

[Madnick]

OK. Syslog a couple of minutes before and after I tried to cange the permissions:
May 2 13:45:01 NH-Server /USR/SBIN/CRON[17404]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/bin/php && /usr/bin/php /usr/share/horde3/scripts/alarms.php)
May 2 13:47:52 NH-Server bubba-networkmanager: Starting up
May 2 13:48:53 NH-Server bubba-networkmanager: Server timed out, terminating
May 2 13:48:53 NH-Server bubba-networkmanager: Daemon terminating
May 2 13:48:53 NH-Server bubba-networkmanager: Shutting down
May 2 13:50:01 NH-Server /USR/SBIN/CRON[17470]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/lib/web-admin/notify-dispatcher.pl && /usr/lib/web-admin/notify-dispatcher.pl)
May 2 13:50:01 NH-Server /USR/SBIN/CRON[17471]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/bin/php && /usr/bin/php /usr/share/horde3/scripts/alarms.php)
May 2 13:52:29 NH-Server mt-daapd[1348]: Rescanning database
May 2 13:52:30 NH-Server mt-daapd[1348]: Starting playlist scan
May 2 13:52:30 NH-Server mt-daapd[1348]: Updating playlists
May 2 13:52:31 NH-Server mt-daapd[1348]: Scanned 795 songs (was 795) in 2 seconds
May 2 13:52:32 NH-Server hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:1897:03:57 WPA: group key handshake completed (RSN)

ls -l /home/ and ls -l /home/storage/ give out absolutely nothing?

By the way when I check my admin rights with WinSCP it's 0755, the same as my user rights...
Should I change that, and if so, how?

[RandomUsername]

ls -l /home/ and ls -l /home/storage/ give out absolutely nothing?

That's...unexpected. This s definitely while you've ssh'd into your Bubba?

[Madnick]

Yeah. So it is.

I made a new user called "visitor" then I made a new group called "visitor". I can not see the new group in the web GUI, but I suppose that is normal?
Then I gave the command: "usermod -G visitor visitor".
User "visitor" is still in group "users" since he still has all access to all files/folders.
How do I change that?