How to allow access to another users public_html

[pondoli]

Dear all,

For a project of mine I need to give user A access to the public_html of user B. How can I achieve this?

Thank you in advance,
Pondoli

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

What access you need: FTP? HTTP?

 

[pondoli]

I need access via PHP to index an uploadfolder.

 

[zEitEr]

Then it depends on your server settings. By now do you have the access?

 

[pondoli]

No I don't have the access through php right now. I do have access to the entire server (machine) as serveradmin.

 

[scsi]

Put both users in a group and chgrp the folder and chmod to 775 or 771

 

[pondoli]

I have been struggeling to get it working.
I put both users in an extra group and gave the public_html folder the rights 40771, its owner is the original owner and the group is the newly created group.

Yet I still don't have access through php. The function

is_dir('/home/test/domains/test.com/public_html')

is still returning false.

What am I missing?

 

[zEitEr]

SafeMode? Open basedir?

 

[pondoli]

What exactly do you mean with that? I'm not very experienced with Linux.

 

[zEitEr]

I don't know which version of PHP you using there, nevertheless that is what I meant:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.open-basedir
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.sect.safe-mode.php#ini.safe-mode

 

[pondoli]

Euhm, safe mode is off, and open base dir is indeed set to only /home/user:/tmp:/var/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/
So what is the best way to add a folder to this set of paths?

 

[LawsHosting]

Edit the DA templates with an IF statement near the open_base.

I'm not very experienced with Linux.

Worrying. If this is the case then doubt you'll get what I mean by the above

 

[pondoli]

I fixed it differently trough the custom HTTPD config files for the specific domain that needed the access by using: (http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=182)

|?OPEN_BASEDIR_PATH=`HOME`/:/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/|

Thank you all for the help!