It did the trick. However the message that comes back is slightly
misleading
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Not
Found
Requested URL /~username/index.html was not found on this
server.
-----Original Message-----Try...
From: Arun G Nair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:12 AM
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to disable public_html
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir DISABLED
</IfModule>
That should work.
-Arun