Linux-Server – file-structure and users

To have a protected network within the company and to implement a maximum of security against attacks from outside the network (e.g. computer-viruses), it is essential to introduce users and a file-structure with exactly defined access-rules.

The organisational background ist described in the document Linux** - file-structure and users.
The file-structure there is implemented on the server with real-directories.

On a workstation the file-structure is implemented using 'mount' to connect the directories on the workstation to the directories documented here.
This allows to acces data stored on a disk on the server in the same manner as data stored on a disk on the workstation.

To simplify an initial installation of a server a script-file was written. This file can be used to perform either a manual installation or execute the script-file and automatically implement the standard-file-structure and standard-users.

Manual installation

Follow this link to the script-file, print it out and perform every command manually over the Linux**-terminal-window.

Execute the script file for an automated installation

1. Follow this link for an explanation how to copy text from a web-browser to a file and familiarize with this procedure.

2. Follow this link to the script-file and copy the commands to a file; name this file 'autocreate_srv.sh' (suggestion).

3. At the target-machine with Linux** perform the following command at a Linux**-terminal-window:
   /mnt/floppy/autocreate_srv.sh
(if the file is transferred with a diskette; if the file is transferred over a network then use the appropriate directory).

Now the file-structure and users are created at the Linux**-Server.