On 01/31/11 12:34 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Monday, January 31, 2011 12:55 AM -0500 Nico Kadel-Garcia > <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This tends to break symlinks and hard-coded script locations. In >> particular, Samba and Apache make some assumptions about where home >> directories live that you might want to resolve if you enable homedir >> access for or public_html access for those tools. > I'd be surprised if such well-written packages didn't simply use the value > from /etc/passwd (acquired by the appropriate API, such as getpwent(3)). > Remember also that Samba and Apache are written to be used on other than > Linux, and other OS's might not keep their home directories in the same > place. >
apache itself has no clue and doesn't look at /etc/passwd or any other such. instead, /home/*/public_html is specified in the httpd.conf files, if that feature is enabled. > As Tom H points out, the big issue is to set the selinux attributes of home > directories not in the more common location. yeah,t hat will bite you _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos