On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:43:04AM -1000, Brian Chee wrote: > Instead of fussing around with NIS, I wuz hoping someone knew > how to reconfig Apache to read a passwd file not in /etc? > Ideally I'd like to rsync over SSH, a passwd file from my NFS > box (trying to migrate away from NFS now) so that I can have > apache export the /public_html directories for my users.
That does not seem necessary. > So basically I'm looking for a config item that will tell > apache to look in a different location for the passwd file so > that it can do a lookup of the user's home directory. So far > the apache documentation is less than helpful, or I'm just not > searching for the correct criteria. > > The hassle is that we've got /home broken up into separate > partitions (i.e. /home/1 /home/2, etc) Otherwise if everyone > was in a single /home directory this would be trivial. I can think of several kludges, but the easiest approach would probably be overloading your UserDir directive with the paths. -Vince