locked out of home directory??

Tue Oct 30 20:43:30 UTC 2007

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I believe apache will put up with a home dir that is rwxr--r-- as long
> as public_html (or equivelant) is rwxr-xr-x underneath it.  rwx------
> won't work though since then it can't find the inoe for the public_html
> dir.

     I prefer to put users' public_html directories in the server's
     document-root directory (or a subdirectory thereof) and symlink
     them into the home directories. That way, $HOME can be rwx------.

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