Changing linux user to gain access to files with different linux owners

[gbrault]

This is more of a question!

First thanks a lot for this wonderful server!

When I am not the linux owner of a file, I can't do anything with it (access denied): view, edit, download
Would it be possible to change the personae to gain access to those files?

a kind of su - ?

What do you think?

(cloudcmd -v): v5.7.4
node -v: 6.9.1
(uname -a on Linux): Linux cerasolar 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
: Chrome Version 54.0.2840.71 m (64-bit) on a remote machine

BR

[coderaiser]

You can do this with help of a Console, actually. You can run it with ~ key and do things you want. There is no other way to do it right now.

[gbrault]

Thanks for the advice. Could you please elaborate a bit to make sure I understand correctly? Thanks!

[coderaiser]

There is one problem with this: unfortunately you can't send username and password to su command in current implementation of console. One of the ways is using sticky bit, also you can add users to suders, but again if you need to send password, nothing will workout.

If you know what you are doing you can run Cloud Commander as root, and then use sudo in Console without typing password, it is not recommended (because of security reasons), but possible. You should set long strong password in Cloud Commander in this case.

[gbrault]

I use cloudcmd with nodered, I can start cloudcmd on-demand and starting it as sudo cloudcmd works. Using iframe in nodered template I can use cloudcmd with node-red dashboard. When I don't need cloudcmd, I stop it to avoid security holes with having it open to long even with password protection. To have all that protected, I use nginx with https as a reverse proxy (easy to setup).
With this, I can of course even set the "root" directory while starting cloudcmd depending on what I am doing on the site.
I tried it and so far this works great! Thanks again

[coderaiser]

Glad to help :).

[coderaiser]

Can be solved with help of a terminal.