groups and .htaccess?

Using .htaccess and a linux server is it possible to give group access

..htaccess covers the folder it is in, and any subfolders, so (until
overridden) it gives access to a whole subtree.

Other than that, you have to put one .htaccess in each folder.

If they are identical between different folders (and will remain so)
then you can duplicate them using links. I'd use hard links (providing
the folders are in the same filesystem) but symbolic links *might* work.
Try it before going too far though. I can imagine the Apache developers
being a bit twitchy about following symbolic links for a file which
controls access/security.

One advantage of using linked files is that you could also include a
link in one of your own directories, with a meaningful name such as
"Group htaccess file"; then you would edit your own file, and the server
would get updated.

Incidentally, for Windows users, the ability to create links to files
also exists in the NTFS filesystem, it is just not widely exposed. You
can use a package "NTFS Link" to make the process a lot easier.

--
Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
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On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:32:36 +0100, Steve Swift
<Steve.J.Swift@gmail.comwrote:


Steve,

'afraid you've lost me! I wish to allow a user to access files in say
folder A, B and E but not those in C and D.

Is there an easy way of doing this? T thought I had read somewhere
about group access which I assumed meant that I could have A, B and E
access in say group X and C and D access in group Y. Then I could
assign this user to X.

Cheers

Geoff

Geoff Cox wrote:

If you want ALL users to have access to A, B and C folders, simply do
NOT password protect them.

If you want (additionally) SOME users to have access to folders D and E,
password protect only those folders.

If the users are in sets and only some sets of users can access some
folders:

SET-1 - access D only (give password to D only)
SET-3 - access E only (give password to E only)
SET-2 - access D and E (give both passwords)

Am I understanding you correctly? Will this handle what you want to do?


--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
There is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me
with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that. - Steve Martin

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:00:41 -0400, Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.netwrote:



Ed,

Not quite - I want to be able to allow user Fred to access say A and
D, user Jane to access C, D and E etc.

How to od this?

Cheers

Geoff

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:31:39 -0700, Michael Vilain
<vilain@NOspamcop.netwrote:


Many thanks Michael - I will check with the hosting people and try out
what you suggest.

Cheers

Geoff

Geoff Cox wrote:

Found the following. Basically you create a user and group file and tell
apache to Require the group.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html

Geoff Cox wrote:

Found the following. Basically you create a user and group file and tell
apache to Require the group.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:11:03 -0500, Joe Beasley
<techjoe@joebeasley.orgwrote:


thanks Joe - sorry for slow response.

Cheers

Geoff