I'm not UT, but Hi yourself!!! ;-P

If you were running SuSE 7.3 I'd tell you to click on the Hammer & Wrench Icon on the bottom bar and select YaST2 Control Center from the popup option. Then migrate the tree to the Network and select Firewall..... Mandrake is similarly easy. Haven't run RH in four years so I can't say but I'd guess that it, too, is just as easy.

Here is where you can find out about almost anything connected with Linux, the Linux Documentation Project:
http://www.linuxdoc.org

From there you can find
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html
and
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Networking-Overview-HOWTO.html

And the internet contains TONS of support at other sites.

For your user access control read about file permissions.
In you situation I'd create a group and give the group permission to access the various non user directories.(besides those in /usr/local, etc...) and add users to the group to give the users permission. There are other ways too.

What distro are you running?
JLK



>Hi UT,
>
>I'm new to Linux and need to establish security on a new Linux Server.
>
>Two questions, really, How to set up users and how to set up myself.
>
>I need complete control across each individual users directories.
>Each user needs -
>List (of Upload and Download Dir)
>Get (of Download Dir)
>Put (in Upload Dir)
>Delete (from Download Dir)
>
>I need in addition to all above -
>Put (in Download Dir)
>move.. Delete (from Upload Dir)
>move.. Put (in Archive Dir)
>
>Users = drwxr-xr-x (up-and-download)
>Me = drwxrwxrwx (up-and download)
>
>Each Individual User owns his own directories. (common group)
>I'm my own user, my own group, and cannot delete upload nor download!?
>
>No individual user can Delete from Upload Dir...
>
>Many other issues follow, lets see if resolution to these two repair all
>
>Thanx In Advance
>
>Ed B