Linux permissions

[rajatQ2]

Hey Guys,
question. I have a web designer doing a site for me. I have a linux VPS.

the files that he needs to access are in this directory:
/home/webadmin/movie-cat.tv/html/app/views

and no where else. His username is "patrick" his first name. he's gonna use insecure ftp. How can i restrict him there? I was thinking symlink, group, and chmod permissions but i can't get it to work.

thanks in advance!

[MrGreg]

What's not working?

- you've created a symlink from patrick's home folder to views
- I would probably add patrick to a new group and have that group own views, and make sure that group has rwx premissions on views
- I would also make sure patrick is NOT a member of any other groups (particularly users)
- you might be able to configure the ftp server so when patrick logs in he is automatically placed in the views directory, so you wouldn't even need the link

[rajatQ2]

Thanks Greg. What i forgot to mention is that he'll FTP into the system. I added him to a new group, and "chroot jailed" him to his new home directory. since FTP doesn't recognize symlinks i had to mount the other directory, public, into his home dir. seems to have worked. thanks!