Re: file manager options for user home directory

On 19/01/2012 2:10pm, Brian Schott wrote:
> Looking for some expert advice. I need to provide an upload and file
> browse capability for a user's home directory. It doesn't have to be
> a full blown file explorer necessarily, just a basic upload,
> download, rename, delete. What's the best way to deal with the
> userid issues on Linux? The files live in a user's home directory,
> so the files are owned by the user, not www-data, and it's probably
> not an option to set the default group to www-data. Users can remote
> desktop and/or ssh to their account, so no predicting what user/group
> creation will happen behind the scenes.

If the user makes the particular files world-readable/writable it
doesn't matter what the uid/gid happens to be. Everything should just
work for nginx.

>
> I've thought about different options, but they all have tradeoffs: 1.
> dav enabled nginx process for each user with a javascript dav file
> explorer? 2. django-storages with sftp? 3. something else?
>
> Brian
>
> Brian Schott bfschott@gmail.com
>
>
>

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