Linux folder permissions

Question

In my office we have a network directory structure:

/jobs/2004/3999-job_name/...
/jobs/2004/4000-job_name/...

The problem is that employees are renaming the folders "4000-job_name" (which, in turn, break other things, which depend on the name that is consistent with the database).

How can I prevent users from renaming the parent folder while still allowing them full control over the contents of this folder?

Please keep in mind that this is a Samba share that Windows users will access.

Answer 1

I think you want to do this:

chmod a=rx /jobs     #chdir and lsdir allowed, modifying not
chmod a=rwx /jobs/*  #allow everything to everyone in the subdirectories

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Answer 3

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ndogg@seriallain:/tmp$ sudo mkdir jobs
ndogg@seriallain:/tmp$ sudo mkdir jobs/2004
ndogg@seriallain:/tmp$ sudo mkdir jobs/2004/3999-job_name/
ndogg@seriallain:/tmp$ cd jobs/2004/
ndogg@seriallain:/tmp/jobs/2004$ sudo chown ndogg.ndogg 3999-job_name/
ndogg@seriallain:/tmp/jobs/2004$ ls -alh
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root  root  4.0K 2009-03-13 18:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root  root  4.0K 2009-03-13 18:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 ndogg ndogg 4.0K 2009-03-13 18:23 3999-job_name
ndogg@seriallain:/tmp/jobs/2004$ touch 3999-job_name/foo
ndogg@seriallain:/tmp/jobs/2004$ mv 3999-job_name/ blah
mv: cannot move `3999-job_name/' to `blah': Permission denied