Derek Martin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> >
> > In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:18:27 EST
> > "Lussier, Kenneth" said:
>
> > No, that's not what I'm talking about. The 'Options FollowSymLinks' does
> > allow me to follow the symlink, but only of the directory permissions are at
> > least r-x for world! Because this directory is NFS mounted all over the
> > network, I have the permissions set to 770. Accessing this directory from
> > Netscape does not allow for Unix permission checking, especially since the
> > httpd server is running as user 'nobody' and not in the correct group!
>
> I think you need to make sure the user the web server is running as is in
> the group that owns the directory...
You could always setup a cgi gateway. Have the cgi be setgid and use the
normal apache htpasswd security to protect access to the cgi. Then the cgi
acts as a gateway to the files the user requests. no?
-Matt
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