Group privileges not working as expected

#1

I’ve been using Linux for a very long time, so I’m aware of how groups/users work.

I’ve got a few shell accounts and I’m trying to rig up a directory under one of the users that they all have access too. that directory’s group ownership is a group to which all these users belong, and the permissions are set G+RX, so I should be able to cd into it. I was able to do this momentarily, but all of a sudden I just get “permission denied” now. Everything seems set up just fine. Is there any weird behavior that Dreamhost does that further prevents users from accessing one another’s home direcotires?

#2

It’s only possible to do this temporarily now. On Manage Users in the panel you can turn off or uncheck “advance security” as you say then it works for a bit… but enhanced security gets turned back on automatically by dreamhost and then it breaks…

related reading: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/One_User_Per_Domain_Policy

#3

That is a real pain. Our team uses subversion and individual accounts (there’s only a handful of us) to access svn, and it’s often important to know who made a commit, and this is only possible if each user has a different account.
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More than that, it’s important to lock certain users to certain areas of the svn database. again, only possible with multiple accounts.

#4

What dreamhost product have you purchased? If you have a VPS or private server then you could turn off dreamhost management and set this up to work. With shared hosting tho, for the tiny price you are stuck with a solution that works best for security on a shared server.

#5

Try setting up a non-enhanced user that isn’t attached to a domain and symlink the SVN transactions to that userspace.

#6

Also — any reason you aren’t setting up a web-based Subversion repository through the panel? That already supports multiple users.