Thanks Matt
I'll try that - looks a lot simpler... I'll also give it a good testing...:)
Steve
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:41 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Matt McCutchen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 18:01 +1000, Steve Dalton wrote:
>>
>>> I managed to do something similar in the end, using the prefix user_
>>> for each user directory then adding .htaccess to root dir of:
>>>
>>> AuthType Basic
>>> AuthName "Restricted Files"
>>> AuthUserFile /var/www/passwd/htpasswd
>>> Require valid-user
>>>
>>> RewriteEngine on
>>> RewriteCond $1 !^user_
>>> RewriteCond %{REMOTE_USER} ^([a-z0-9_]+)$
>>> RewriteRule (.*) /var/www/accesstest/user_%1/$1 [
>>>
>>> The only problem with this is that any user could access other users
>>> directories... so I then had to add an additional .htaccess of
>>> require user spidie
>>>
>>> to the user_spidie directory... etc etc.
>>>
>>
>> If you put the rewrite rules in the main server configuration rather
>> than an htaccess file, you don't have to worry about them being run
>> multiple times, so you can drop the user_ prefix and condition. You
>> don't need to condition on %{REMOTE_USER} either because rewrite rules
>> don't run until after the user gains authorization. The rule I gave
>> earlier (updated for your directory name) should just work:
>>
>> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /var/www/accesstest/%{REMOTE_USER}/$1
>>
>> (Not trying to be sarcastic here, it's a genuine question)
>
> What happens if Evil Hacker me, logs in as user1 and then request in my
> browser http://foo.com/../user2/index.html ?
> Taken literally, the RewriteRule above should rewrite this as
> /var/www/accesstest/user1/../user2/index.html
> no ?
> Is some other inner security measure stripping that .. somewhere ?
>
>
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