No, it's not. You wouldn't grant write access to the Apache home directory to
a person. That's why the UserDir exists. Otherwise, CGI scripts could do
real harm to the Apache home directory, which is not intended for anyone
except the webmaster/site admin to touch.
If you have a problem chmodding the home dirs to 755, either direct your users
to create a subfolder into their $HOME directory with mask 700 and store
personal directories there, or modify the UserDir directive.
That's the way to go in all *nixes. Nothing except under $HOME should be
user-writeable.
Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Manuel Amador wrote:
>
> >
> > That's not the way to go. That poses security risks to you.
> >
> > The proper way is to use the UserDir apache directive to use the
public_html
> > folder into the users $HOME directory, and chmodding the home directories
to
> > 755.
> >
> > Better change soon...
>
> Actualy his way is more secure, then you do not have to allow "nobody"
> access to the homedir and it can be chmod 700
>
> > Bug Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > >
> > > We modified adduser to create /home/httpd/html/username every time a
> > > user was created. We then added a soft link from the user's home
> > > directory to the directory in the html directory. now, people go to
> > > http://systemname.com/username and pick up index.html in that
directory.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Ron Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > Here's a tough one for the experts...
> > > >
> > > > I have the Apache Web Server running - it is accessible and working
fine.
> > > > What I would like to do is have a separate web page for each user name
I
> > have
> > > > on the system. Is that do-able? If so, how can I do it?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks to one and all for your expert advice...
> > > >
> > > > Ron
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rudd-O
> > Jefe de operaciones
> > Alpha Omega Creative Solutions
> >
> >
>
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>
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