On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Manuel Amador wrote:
>
> No, it's not. You wouldn't grant write access to the Apache home directory to
> a person. That's why the UserDir exists. Otherwise, CGI scripts could do
> real harm to the Apache home directory, which is not intended for anyone
> except the webmaster/site admin to touch.
Correct i wouldn't give the write access to /home/httpd/html, but i would
personaly rather give them write access to /home/httpd/html/`id -un`
> If you have a problem chmodding the home dirs to 755, either direct your users
> to create a subfolder into their $HOME directory with mask 700 and store
> personal directories there, or modify the UserDir directive.
Then doing this, you wouldn't want someone pokeing about in /root why
would you want them pokeing around in someone elses homedir..
> That's the way to go in all *nixes. Nothing except under $HOME should be
> user-writeable.
It's all about choice, yes it is a good idea to keep everyone limited to
~/ but not always practical
> Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Manuel Amador wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > That's not the way to go. That poses security risks to you.
> > >
> > > The proper way is to use the UserDir apache directive to use the
> public_html
> > > folder into the users $HOME directory, and chmodding the home directories
> to
> > > 755.
> > >
> > > Better change soon...
> >
> > Actualy his way is more secure, then you do not have to allow "nobody"
> > access to the homedir and it can be chmod 700
> >
> > > Bug Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > We modified adduser to create /home/httpd/html/username every time a
> > > > user was created. We then added a soft link from the user's home
> > > > directory to the directory in the html directory. now, people go to
> > > > http://systemname.com/username and pick up index.html in that
> directory.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ron Smith wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Here's a tough one for the experts...
> > > > >
> > > > > I have the Apache Web Server running - it is accessible and working
> fine.
> > > > > What I would like to do is have a separate web page for each user name
> I
> > > have
> > > > > on the system. Is that do-able? If so, how can I do it?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks to one and all for your expert advice...
> > > > >
> > > > > Ron
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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