www interface to samba

Kevin Cozens kcozens-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 17 21:56:41 UTC 2003


At 03:12 PM 11/17/2003 -0500, wooi wrote:
>They are mainly windows users.  Share over internet won't work it will be 
>blocked by firewall.

Ah. I thought you might have been talking about users on a LAN.

>The main concern that I have of using Apache File Manager Module as 
>suggested by Will is security.  I don't want the apache user to have 
>access to these files.

Since you want users to be able to upload/download files using a web 
browser then the apache user must have access to the files. That shouldn't 
be much of a problem since the apache user should be a unique user ID 
and  group not used by a regular user.

The biggest problem may be the use of .htaccess and creating/maintaining 
the user ID's and passwords to protect access to the files. You don't want 
to provide unrestricted upload/download to avoid people on the net using 
your site as a place where they could exchange copyrighted material.


Cheers!

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