Le Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 02:19:25PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman écrivait: > Do the default web server configurations allow symlinks like this?
Apache does but I don't know about the other webserver. > Hmm...I don't like the sound of that. The postinst will have to chown > directories to this user, which might be bad if there is already a real, > supposedly-unprivileged user with that name. Would it be reasonable to > check whether the user's UID is in the designated 'system' range? Yes it's a possibility. Check if uid < 1000, but admins may have changed the limit by editing adduser.conf ... :) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -=- http://ntux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ <pub> CDs Debian : http://ntux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd </pub>
