Re: Groups and Users...
Wow! Great! Thanks, That linux conf is very nice!
Thanks for your answears, I'll give all that stuff a try!
Take care!
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> > I want to work with my partner developing some software, I would like to
> > have acommon place in which we put our stuff. Like a common directory for
> > the proyects we share and files we share...
> >
> > How would I go about that? does it go in /home?
>
> You may want to look at CVS (www.cvshome.org) It's a complete versioning
> tool designed to allow concurrent development my multiple developers. (Like
> Visual SourceSafe from MS)
>
> However, to answer your question more directly, it can really go anywhere you
> want. There's no right/wrong answer on where to put those kinds of files.
> (There are some conventions, but nothing set in stone) /home or /usr would be
> a perfectly valid place.
>
> >
> > I guess that for that i need to creat a group to which we will both belong
> > so that only we have acces to it without having to change user accounts,
> > so if you can also tell me where to find info about common practices to
> > manage groups and users I'll appreciate it... Also, is there an easy to
> > use tool to manage groups and users in a term?
>
> I would check out linuxconf, available as a debian package, or webmin
> (www.webmin.com/webmin) which is a great tool -- very easy to use and does a
> lot more than just manage users and groups.
>
>
> > The other question: How do I protect a web page with a password? Let's say
> > that I create a user with public_html and I want to get a username and
> > password to enable acces to it...
>
> Assuming you're running apache, you need to have mod_auth enabled and then
> you just need to create a fairly simple .htaccess text file and a password
> file using htpasswd. See:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_auth.html
>
> for more information.
>
> hth.
>
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