On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:32:37PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 09:28:34 -0500
> "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > To fix existing home directories, if they are all in /home/,
> > 
> >     chmod o-r /home/*
> > 
> > Note that you want the directories *executable* so that apache (for
> > example) can "cd" to ~/public_html/ for serving user's pages.
> 
> Don't they need to be readable in order to be accessible to Apache?

Readable lets you list a directory. Executable lets you access files or
directories within that directory whose names you already know. Apache
needs the latter to find ~/public_html.

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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