[CentOS] Provide access to /home folder

Tue Nov 5 10:31:03 UTC 2013
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: Gopu Krishnan <gopukrishnantec at gmail.com>

> I have a CentOS linux web server in which I have multiple web sites. I have
> many website programmers now doing the coding for all the sites. How can I
> provide a key-based authentication for the programmers in such a way that
> they have access only to /home folder ? They should be able to access only
> all the files inside /home and able to modify it. This is cPanel server in
> which all the sites comes under /home directory. Currently they are using
> separate passwords for every site. If I could give access to my developer
> inside /home folder, they would be able to do edit all the sites easily
> rather than having separate password for each site (eg : /home/site1 or
> /home/site2).  Please share your ideas on the same.

I do not know cPanel but what about all of them being part of the same group...?
Then, give the correct permissions to the group.

JD