On Wed February 15 2006 03:12, Daryl K Sayers wrote:
> We were an Applixware site and have finally biten the bullet and are
> migrating to Open office. We are using FreeBSD 4.11 and so we are using the
> current 1.1 port of Open Office. Our problem is one of file security and
> public access.
>
> Currently our users have a umask of 2, meaning they are able to view
> other peoples documents but cannot modify newly created publicly sharable
> documents.
>
> In applixware there was an environment variable called AX_ACCESS_DIRPATH
> that a sysadmin could set to restrict access to certain directorys. As
> our users never gain shell access this was a simple way of restricting the
> directorys a user could browse and read. eg:
>
> AX_ACCESS_DIRPATH=$HOME:/public/share/admin:/public/share/socialclub
>
> Would allow access to 3 directory trees.
>
> The other Applixware feature was when a user saves a document the save
> pop up box allowed the user to select the Read/write permissions for
> group and other. By setting or reseting these buttons one had control
> over who could view or write to each file.
>
>
> It seems that Open office does not have either of these features. So
> my question is:
>
> In a multiuser environment where many people are running Open office
> on the same local filesystem how does one restrict access to a set of
> documents for a user, and at the same time maintain multiple publicly
> accessable areas for shared document access.
>
> eg:
>
> joe has private access to:
> /home/joe/documents
> joe has public access to:
> /public/share/admin
> /public/share/accounts
>
> sharon has private access to:
> /home/sharon/mydocs
> sharon has public access to:
> /public/share/admin
> /public/share/purchaseorders
> /public/share/sales
>
> This cannot be easily accomplished with file system permission as
> as it will not scale to the 50 or so users we have. Each user will
> have a unique set of public directorys that they should have access to.
> In Applix this was resolved by a script and config file with the result
> pushed into the AX_ACCESS_DIRPATH environment variable.
Hi Daryl,
Why not use normal unix user and group permissions. You can have a
user in MANY groups if necessary.
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