Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 07:20:46PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> for some testing we first want to install our Wordpress website inhouse.
> and for that i have designed a Debian 7. and installed all the necessary
> packages that are needed for the deployment.
> now i want to grant rights to our freelance web developer so he can deploye
> the website. i never did this in pas i am a one man army. now Firewall and
> all security related things are already deployed with 1 to 1 NAT. however
> now i want to give him very limited right so that he can install the
> website with out complaining and i can also feel secure.
If you have already installed WordPress and set up its database, you don't
need to give your developer any system-wide rights at all. Just make him
administrator of the WordPress site itself. If it's properly installed, he
can then install plugins, themes, etc. from the WP GUI.
If security is a concern (and it probably should be) you might consider
sandboxing WorPress and having its MySQL instance be separate from any other
MySQL uses on your server. Or maybe even putting it on its own virtual
instance.
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