On 24 Jul, Pure Energy wrote: > Having thing set with these perms keeps local users from looking > at your things yes but keep in mind that a local user can look at your > url, know fairly well that there is an index.html, index.htm or > index.shtml there. even with these permissions they can cd to your > public_html dir and vi index.html (or index.htm index.shtml) and see other > things you have. Or simply look at the code via the browser. :-)
> Apache already knows where the dirs are so they don't need to be > readable by group and others. Just keep in mind that while all this is > fine nothing in the public_html dir can be kept secret if it is viewable > via the web. > Sure, but what's the problem ? Maybe I misunderstood the original question. I think he wants to keep the users homedir and subdirs other than public_html secret. And public_html readable and browsable by all/the webserver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ is there a way I can prevent users from looking at other user's dirs and still have the public_html function of apache (v1.2.1)? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you want restrictions on public_html you have to look at .htaccess Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .