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Offline Agent86

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« on: August 02, 2007, 10:45:32 PM »
Hi, all

Is there a contrib that can allow a user to sign up for their own ftp space ? on my SME server ?

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Is there a way to allow one of my current SME users to create their own separate users and allow his users to have their own ftp space,sort of like webshare, but a separate webshare admin area for my current users to create file storage for their clients to upload and download on the server without having to send me an email everytime to add a new user and password for the webshare space ?

Or something like that, basically I would like my current user to be able to create file space for his users, but his users can't have permission to go outside of that file space ? and needs to be accessible via the web.

Please advise
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« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2007, 12:06:27 PM »
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Is there a contrib that can allow a user to sign up for their own ftp space ? on my SME server ?

Not that i know off.

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Or something like that, basically I would like my current user to be able to create file space for his users, but his users can't have permission to go outside of that file space ? and needs to be accessible via the web.

Would knowledgetree do? http://www.knowledgetree.com
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« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2007, 12:38:46 PM »
I don't think this will allow users to create file storage space for another user. But I'll review it some more, thanks.

I wish there was a way I could give admin permissions to people , but only allow them access to the webshare's admin page so that they could add users to the webshares

Or better yet have webshares install inside of an ibay so that only groups or users that have access to that ibay can access the webshares admin page ?

I will review some of the other contribs, to see if any of those would allow some type of user ftp space creation

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Re: Webshare ?
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2007, 03:59:34 PM »
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I wish there was a way I could give admin permissions to people , but only allow them access to the webshare's admin page so that they could add users to the webshares

Stephen's contrib may provide the panel access funtionality you need:

http://dungog.net/sme/usermanager.php

Darrell

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« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2007, 05:34:31 PM »
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I don't think this will allow users to create file storage space for another user. But I'll review it some more, thanks.

It will. You just have to create some users with admin privileges and then some folders with different view privileges. I use it for a few of my friends and it works quite well.

Another alternative would be the user-manager contrib but i think that you have to enter users under remote if you want them to be able to connect to this so you'd have a problem with users that use dinamic ip's.
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Re: Webshare ?
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2007, 12:44:33 AM »
Quote from: "dmay"
Quote from: "Agent86"
I wish there was a way I could give admin permissions to people , but only allow them access to the webshare's admin page so that they could add users to the webshares

Stephen's contrib may provide the panel access funtionality you need:

http://dungog.net/sme/usermanager.php

Darrell


This would be nice if it had the webshare panel, manager but I don't see that when reviewing the panel access parts.
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Re: Webshare ?
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2007, 11:55:18 AM »
Agent86

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I wish there was a way I could give admin permissions to people , but only allow them access to the webshare's admin page so that they could add users to the webshares



You may need to use a different approach.
Although there are plenty of suggestions to install apps to /opt, this is a situation where it's necessary to install them to ibays (or subfolders in ibays). Install all the required apps for that admin group/domain into an ibay and password protect the necessary sections of the ibay so that only certain admins can access them. There is a howto for configuring password access to subfolders in my contrib area (rmitchell). You would end up having multiple installs of different apps on your server.
Obviously using contrib rpms may not be the way to go here, although you could move the files from /opt to the ibay as necessary and change config files to suit, or otherwise install from tar.gz files directly to the ibay or subfolders in the ibay.
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