> Leonel Nunez dijo [Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:50:09AM -0700]:
>> > so to clarify, you might want to chmod 750 <thedirectory> and then
>> > chown username:www-data <your dir> . Or something similar.
>> >
>>
>> Karmic has the $HOME dir  encripted with the user's key
>> so, That's why  www-data can't access   /home/theencripteddir/
>>
>> I'll test later on a karmic server with the users home directory
>> encrypted.
>>
>> But can you please test with cherokee running as YOUR user not the
>> www-data?
>
> That would be a VERY bad idea security-wise. Any vulnerability, either
> in Cherokee or in any of the processes it spawns would automatically
> have access to the whole directory. Even worse (and more likely), you
> would only have to create a simple symlink to allow Cherokee to access
> any other of the encrypted user files.
>

> In any case, if you are encrypting a portion of your used directory,
> it means it should be kept away from the world at large. If you want
> to make part of your information public, well, keep it outside the
> encrypted area!
>
> You can achieve that (while keeping a congruent view to the user) by
> setting up an unencrypted directory controlled (chown'ed) by the user
> (call it if you want to /home/public/$user or whatever), and
> symlinking it as /home/$user/public.
>
> Greetings,




I know what implies,

what I've understood from the first mail this setup is for a test/devel
machine nothing going for producction


>
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>


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