On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Vincent Danen wrote: > This was done, IIRC, to allow people to have a ~/public_html/ directory and > allow apache to enter the home directory so as to read ~/public_html/ (which > would allow someone to do something like http://yoursite.com/~preador/). > That's pretty much the reasoning for it IIRC. > nothing stopping you from doing a higher security level or modifying the > defaults.
I always created a symlink in the user's home directory such as ln -s /var/www/html/user /home/user/(public_html|html|www|whatever). I always thought that was a rather useful solution, but I'm open to criticism. -- -chort AKA Brian Keefer The thoughts I express are generally piped from /dev/random, needless to say they do not represent my fine employer: CipherTrust, Inc - www.ciphertrust.com
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