On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:22:13AM -0600, Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
> Davor Ocelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 04:56:39PM -0600, Christopher D. Clausen
> > wrote:
> >> Davor Ocelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:39:45AM -0800, Adam Chlipala wrote:
> >> >> Michael Olson wrote:
> >> >> > * apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf: Set AllowOverride to
> >> >> >   none in users' public_html, as per old config.
> >> >>
> >> >> We may even want to only enable userdirs on mire, to keep all
> >> >> member web serving in one place.  Any thoughts on this?
> >> >
> >> > This would be good.
> >>
> >> I'd like to to be able to restrict certain portions of ~cclausen to
> >> specific people and/or IP addresses.  I don't think allowing
> >> "AuthConfig" overrides would be a terrible security issue.  If
> >> someone can think of such an instance, please let us know.
> >>
> >> Also, can I suggest simply getting rid of the public_html and setting
> >> the web space directly at ~/ ?  This makes a lot more sense with AFS
> >> and its what MIT does.  That way users can use a "Public" and
> >> "Private" folder from there and don't have to keep a seperate
> >> web-specific directory.
> >
> > Interesting. One problem I see with this is that our members who use
> > ~public_html/ do it because they want to serve the website to
> > visitors, not the contents of their home directory.
> 
> Okay, so symlink the files or redirect them with Apache directives.
> 
> > Another issue is, knowing that the contents of your home dir are
> > "shared", you would have to put anything you want to save in
> > Private/, which is another level down the tree.
> 
> No, you wouldn't.  I don't think you understand that "system:anyuser l" 
> doesn't grant read access.  It only grants the ability for anyone to 
> view the file names in the directory.  You need "r" access to be able to 
> actually read the files.
> 
> > And there's a potential issue of different .rc files with
> > improper permissions being open to the world for reading.
> 
> No, this isn't true either.  See above.

Right, I was thinking in terms of the usual filesystem, not AFS.
Well, then if folks have no objection to having the names of their
files visible, we can go this route.

-doc

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