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FAQ: how to turn off suexec in third-party distros

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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2004-04-05 15:28 -------
If you read "disdain" in my comments, then I apologize.  It was certainly not
intended.  What I meant to express was confusion.  Several of your comments
still have me confused.

The suggestion of documenting how to turn off suexec in the FAQ is not a bad
one.  We should consider that.

As far as your number 2), if you look at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/suexec.html#usage
you'll see that suexec is only called if mod_userdir is involved in the
request (or for certain virtual hosts).  If you use an Alias to map "~", then 
you circumvent mod_userdir and hence suexec plays no part at all.  
Although this may indeed have security implications in some circumstances, 
it would not make sense to deny the request, because there are valid reasons 
for using an Alias in this way.  This is one of many reasons why suexec should
only be used very carefully.

As far as your other littany of problems, I again suggest that you discuss
them on [email protected] or, if you wish to help improve the 
documentation,
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Finally, to repeat what I have already said, the real bug here, and the
reason you had to spend so much time on this, is that Redhat is distributing
poorly configured software.  They should not be enabling suexec by default.
There is nothing we can do about that.  I encourage
you to file a bug report with Redhat.

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