--On Freitag, 5. Juli 2002 11:38 +1000 Jason Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> But won't "rmdir ." succeed if they are in the public_html directory? > > rmdirs _below_ client1/site1/cgi-bin/ and client1/site1/htdocs/ would > all work. > > rmdirs of client1/site1/htdocs/, or client1/site1/cgi-bin/ themselves > will not work as that requires modifying the parent directory > (client1/site1) for which the client has no write priviliges. > -------------------------- > > With that.... wouldn't the client be unable to mkdir client1/site1/testdir > ? > > Since client1/site1 is owned by root, and only client1/site1/cgi-bin and > client1/site1/htdocs are owned by the user, the user could only create > directories in those 2 directories, and anywhere else they cannot? > > If that were true, that wouldn't be an optimal solution, because the > clients tend to also want to put stuff in directories not accessable by > the web at all. I have a third fully accessible dir for them called "private", same rights as htdocs and cgi-bin, but not configured in apache. For the PHP safe mode conf, you might also include it in open_base_dir etc. so customer's scripts can read/write in private. Cheers, Marcel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
