Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else

1999-11-10 Thread Mike Cathey
you might want to look into chroot also... Edmund wrote: > I don't allow shell access but I do allow FTP. I set up guestgroup in the > /etc/ftpaccess to make it so that the user's home directory is their root. In other > words, they can't go FTP above their own directory in the /home/~ directo

Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else

1999-11-08 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Rob Napier wrote: > > But unfortunately does not address our desire to give our users > password-protected web pages that aren't readable by every other user > on the system. Since I personally use this feature (I have password > protected pages that are for me and my friends and aren't the busin

Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else

1999-11-08 Thread Sam Bayne
Anthony Baratta wrote: > Rob Napier wrote: > > > > But unfortunately does not address our desire to give our users > > password-protected web pages that aren't readable by every other user > > on the system. Since I personally use this feature (I have password > > protected pages that are for me

Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else

1999-11-08 Thread Anthony Baratta
Rob Napier wrote: > > But unfortunately does not address our desire to give our users > password-protected web pages that aren't readable by every other user > on the system. Since I personally use this feature (I have password > protected pages that are for me and my friends and aren't the busin

Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else

1999-11-08 Thread Rob Napier
L PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 2:49 PM > Subject: Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else > > > > > > > I am currently in a similar situation. Apache requires that the > user's > &

Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else

1999-01-02 Thread Brad 'GreyBear' Davis
7;t crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers!' - Original Message - From: Sam Bayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 2:49 PM Subject: Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else > > > > I am currently in a s

Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else

1999-01-02 Thread Sam Bayne
> > > I am currently in a similar situation. Apache requires that the user's > > > home directory be world executable and the public_html directory be > > > world readable. In my application, however, this is unacceptable, > > > since the user may have private files in his public_html directory >

Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else

1999-01-02 Thread Rob Napier
Nope. We have well over 2000 shell-account users. I think we'd see a lynch mob if we turned it off now (I'd be at the front of the line as a heavy user of my shell account :) Rob On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:16:46AM -0800, Edmund wrote: > I don't allow shell access but I do allow FTP. I set up gu

Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else

1999-01-02 Thread Edmund
I don't allow shell access but I do allow FTP. I set up guestgroup in the /etc/ftpaccess to make it so that the user's home directory is their root. In other words, they can't go FTP above their own directory in the /home/~ directory. I then also set up the /etc/security/access.conf file to not

Re: Permissions to allow public_html and nothing else

1999-01-02 Thread Rob Napier
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:18:40AM +0100, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > Peter Kiem wrote: > > >Other users can still see the directory information for files in the $HOME > > >directory if they already know the filename. I created a directory for my > > >users that has permissions drwx-- so that o