How can stop sftp download and upload a specific file in the root user and cat command

samo azaid

9/30/23, 1:17 PM

how to stop sftp root user transfir and donload for specific file

linux centos 7

I have a text file located in the root folder But . I want to give someone a root user password and I need to protect my file. I want to make sure that this person cannot download this file to his device via sftp

and stop cat this file

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Gerald Schneider

9/30/23, 1:26 PM

You can't. If you give someone root access he has all privileges to remove your restrictions. Either you trust someone to give him root access or you don't.

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Phill W.

9/30/23, 1:45 PM

I have a text file located in the root folder ...

Probably not a Good Idea to start with.
Linux has conventions about where files should be placed. The root directory is not one of them.

But I want to give someone a root user password ...

Bad Idea.
Always keep the biggest and best tools in the toolbox for yourself, so that you can clean up the mess made by other people (and processes).
If you hand out the root password, you abandon all control of that server.

... and I need to protect my file.

You cannot have both.
Anyone with root access can do anything. By design.

(What's in this oh-so-important file, anyway?)

Find another way to get this user the access that they require.
sudo is a common solution and it doesn't [have to] involve handing out root access! (You can tell sudo to allow certain commands to run as a specific user, not just root).

I want to make sure that this person cannot download this file to his device via sftp and stop cat this file

If you don't want them to be able to look at the file (through cat) and you don't want them to be able to read the file (to download it) what do you want them to be able to do with it?

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Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: How can stop sftp download and upload a specific file in the root user and cat command

TH: จะหยุดการดาวน์โหลด sftp และอัปโหลดไฟล์เฉพาะในผู้ใช้รูทและคำสั่ง cat ได้อย่างไร

RO: Cum se poate opri descărcarea sftp și încărcarea unui anumit fișier în comanda utilizator root și cat

RU: Как остановить загрузку sftp и загрузить определенный файл в команду пользователя root и cat

VI: Làm cách nào để dừng tải xuống sftp và tải lên một tệp cụ thể trong lệnh người dùng gốc và mèo

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