On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 13:00, Buck wrote: > I have finally succeeded in setting up an account on my Linux box that > can be accessed by my XP computer. [snip] > What I need to do now is to setup Buck and Mac in a user group on > Penguin that can only have access remotely in /etc/passwd change the last field from probably '/bin/bash/ to '/sbin/nologin'. You'll have to test how this affects samba though, as far as I can tell, it doesn't (ran a quick test). > and can only access one > folder branch (Oasis). smb.conf: [someshare] path = /tmp/niceppl valid users = buckuser, macuser wide links = No read only = no and maybe some others, such as browseable = no to be 'covert'! > After that I will want to setup a second group > called "Processors" and a folder called "Processing" which will be their > exclusive access. similarly as above, but change valid users. Is the group name really necessary if they can't login to the smb host? > Finally I want to setup an "Admin" account for myself > to have access to the entire Linux computer remotely or at the keyboard. locally: redhat-config-users add your own user name, then visudo and give yourself sudo privelages. now type 'sudo command' for anything that needs >user level access. remotely: there are many things you can do. I prefer ssh, which then lets you set up ssh port forwarding to connect to, for example, swat. > I realize this is too much for one to answer on this forum, but maybe > someone can point me in the right direction or outline the steps I need > to lookup in the books. I highly recommend swat for configuring samba. Its online help and 'graphical' interface have been invaluable to me in setting it up. > Thank you all for your help. no worries :) hope I haven't made any mistakes... ciao, -- Iain Buchanan <iain@nospam.pcorp.com.au> Forty two.
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