On September 1993 plus 3590 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 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.

  The real problem with that is that you have to a) specifically give
  each user a web space when they request it and b) write perms inside
  your /var partition...and I really really *really* hate to give
  write perms to anybody in my /var partition/disk

  Vox the paranoid

-- 
Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs.  Kind
of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_
technology than everyone else.       -- Donald B. Marti Jr.

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