> Leonel Nunez dijo [Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:50:09AM -0700]: >> > so to clarify, you might want to chmod 750 <thedirectory> and then >> > chown username:www-data <your dir> . Or something similar. >> > >> >> Karmic has the $HOME dir encripted with the user's key >> so, That's why www-data can't access /home/theencripteddir/ >> >> I'll test later on a karmic server with the users home directory >> encrypted. >> >> But can you please test with cherokee running as YOUR user not the >> www-data? > > That would be a VERY bad idea security-wise. Any vulnerability, either > in Cherokee or in any of the processes it spawns would automatically > have access to the whole directory. Even worse (and more likely), you > would only have to create a simple symlink to allow Cherokee to access > any other of the encrypted user files. >
> In any case, if you are encrypting a portion of your used directory, > it means it should be kept away from the world at large. If you want > to make part of your information public, well, keep it outside the > encrypted area! > > You can achieve that (while keeping a congruent view to the user) by > setting up an unencrypted directory controlled (chown'ed) by the user > (call it if you want to /home/public/$user or whatever), and > symlinking it as /home/$user/public. > > Greetings, I know what implies, what I've understood from the first mail this setup is for a test/devel machine nothing going for producction > > -- > Gunnar Wolf ⢠[email protected] ⢠(+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 > _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
