----- "Hajo Locke" <hajo.lo...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello List,
> 
> a question to mod_dav. Some providers offer mod_dav to edit files
> which are 
> also editable/writeable by ftp-user?
> In most cases ftp-users/apacheuser are different to avoid security
> problems. 
> Whats the trick to make this possible without security risk?

It's not so much a trick.. You reverse-proxy DAV (write) requests to a
back-end which is running on an unprivileged port, as an unprivileged
user, who has the permission to do writes on the FS.

> could imagine a special user/group setup but all my solutions result
> in 
> securityproblems by to much  readability.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hajo 
> 

bye,
i

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