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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