Re: file manager options for user home directory

That might work for a public folder in a user's home directory, but I was looking for a mechanism that doesn't involve gutting all security or relying on users to correctly set permissions our groups. I could tolerate adding a key to a user .ssh/authorized_keys file that gives www-data user command="sftp-internal" access if django-storages sftp backend allows multiple accounts (or even as root if properly root jailed to /home). Just feel I'm going the long way around the barn and am missing an obvious way to for web-based file management for user's files...

On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:56 AM, Mike Dewhirst wrote:

> On 19/01/2012 2:10pm, Brian Schott wrote:
>> Looking for some expert advice. I need to provide an upload and file
>> browse capability for a user's home directory. It doesn't have to be
>> a full blown file explorer necessarily, just a basic upload,
>> download, rename, delete. What's the best way to deal with the
>> userid issues on Linux? The files live in a user's home directory,
>> so the files are owned by the user, not www-data, and it's probably
>> not an option to set the default group to www-data. Users can remote
>> desktop and/or ssh to their account, so no predicting what user/group
>> creation will happen behind the scenes.
>
> If the user makes the particular files world-readable/writable it doesn't matter what the uid/gid happens to be. Everything should just work for nginx.
>
>
>>
>> I've thought about different options, but they all have tradeoffs: 1.
>> dav enabled nginx process for each user with a javascript dav file
>> explorer? 2. django-storages with sftp? 3. something else?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> Brian Schott bfschott@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
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