On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:38:33PM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote: > > ... really? Write a script to copy the user's files over on a schedule...? > > I can see where that might be an option for some people, but that's > entirely not an option in this case. I'd have to schedule it to run every > 5 seconds or something to keep users from getting upset.
Cron has a granularity of one minute. Otherwise you can write a simple script that calls rsync(1) every five seconds. At my ISP I can upload my website to my home directory, and then I have to execute a command to make my updates accessible from the outside. You could do something like that as well. > What if I symlinked each home user's public_html directory to a directory > readable only by Apache? Would Apache be able to read the destination > directory via the symlink, even if it doesn't have permission to access > the destination directory? Nope. You can't even make the symlink as a normal user: ($ = normal user, # = root) $ ls -ld /var/heimdal drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Feb 11 19:45 /var/heimdal/ # fortune >/var/heimdal/foo $ ls -s /var/heimdal/foo foo ls: /var/heimdal/foo: Permission denied You can make the link as root, but you still can't use it: # ln -s /var/heimdal/foo foo # ll foo lrwxr-xr-x 1 root rsmith 16 Feb 11 19:50 foo@ -> /var/heimdal/foo $ cat foo cat: foo: Permission denied > Is there really no better way to do this...?!? - Try access control lists to give group WWW access (as mentioned). - Let them upload via FTP (I think most HTML editors support this). - Depending on the user's content you could make blogs of their sites? That way they can edit via the browser or their favorite blog posting software. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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