Permissions?

[takashi_maze]

Is there anyway to CHMOD a folder so that it is viewable to my FTP admins, and all files inside are accessable but cannot be edited (read-only)? I thought maybe you could do it with .htaccess or something but I'm not sure. Whenever I try and CHMOD it to read only it just goes back to what it started out as.

[IanS]

Is there anyway to CHMOD a folder so that it is viewable to my FTP admins, and all files inside are accessable but cannot be edited (read-only)? I thought maybe you could do it with .htaccess or something but I'm not sure. Whenever I try and CHMOD it to read only it just goes back to what it started out as.I've managed to use WS_FTP to set the CHMOD to 744 successfully - is that what you want?

(I don't know if it has the desired affect - but the settings report 744)

[takashi_maze]

Well what I'd like is a directory in which my site staff can go in using their FTP, and see any files in there but they cannot edit anything in the folder. They can only view the files.

[IanS]

Well what I'd like is a directory in which my site staff can go in using their FTP, and see any files in there but they cannot edit anything in the folder. They can only view the files.

The simplest way isn't to use FTP but to have a folder without an index - the browser will then list the files. They can then download them (but will be able to locally edit them) but not save any alterations they make to the on-line versions of the file.

There are much tidier ways to achieve the same result - I'm sure others will post later.

If they are FTP users then they'd be able to change the permsissions to any files they can gain access to so would defeat the purpose of changing the permissions.

[takashi_maze]

I thought maybe I could use FTP to transfer large files to them for editing and such before they were compressed and added to the site. I noticed that FTP doesn't use up the bandwidth limit because when we exceeded our 5gb limit once, I was still able to transfer via FTP. This probably isn't allowed <.< But I was wondering if it could be done.

[IanS]

I thought maybe I could use FTP to transfer large files to them for editing and such before they were compressed and added to the site. I noticed that FTP doesn't use up the bandwidth limit because when we exceeded our 5gb limit once, I was still able to transfer via FTP. This probably isn't allowed <.< But I was wondering if it could be done.You're probably right, it probably isn't allowed - but also correct in thinking it can probably be done that way. The complication you're adding to the mix is the permissions. If you trust them enough, giving them their own FTP access to a folder with the files in is done within OPS. They can be restricted to a particular folder and it's sub-folders. They will be able to change permissions on files in the folder and sub-folders they have access to, but not to the rest of the site as they won't have FTP access to that.

[takashi_maze]

I'm also worried that increased traffic will short out out bandwidth limit too easily as well :( FTP may be the only alternative without going into all that P2P crud. -_-
If we could only customize the page that's displayed when the bandwidth limit is reached then that'd be fine! But instead you get a self-promoting Powweb notice. Maybe I should put that forward as a suggestion <.<

[IanS]

I'm also worried that increased traffic will short out out bandwidth limit too easily as well :( FTP may be the only alternative without going into all that P2P crud. -_-
If we could only customize the page that's displayed when the bandwidth limit is reached then that'd be fine! But instead you get a self-promoting Powweb notice. Maybe I should put that forward as a suggestion <.<Agreed, customisation of the bandwidth limit page would be nice. FTP from within sub-folders with sub-users would seem to be a short term solution.

[takashi_maze]

There doesn't seem to be a Suggestions forum <.< What's with that??? X_x

[IanS]

There doesn't seem to be a Suggestions forum <.< What's with that??? X_xNo, I think they're probably too frightened that it may be abused when problems exist - can you imagine all the suggestions they'd be getting over the MySQL problems? :D :D

[takashi_maze]

Good point ^^;;