On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:02:05AM +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > the goal is, that the FTP server is a Dropbox for Alice, so she can > > upload files and folders and is not able to see the uploaded files > > (drwx-wx--- for the main older). > > > > There is a much more fine-grained ACL system in Linux which sits on top > of the standard file permissions. Have a look at, for instance, > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/ch-acls.html > > or 'man acl' This, though old, also gives a very good explanation of ACLs. http://tech.trailmax.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/default_ACL.pdf -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6