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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:24:39 -0800
From:      "Clint Martin" <clintm@cet.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions" <FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Secure user dirs
Message-ID:  <012801c0aabd$1e05a080$0264000a@helter.org>
References:  <GGEDLFFENPEFKJCNMFBFGEIMCAAA.toushek@canadiangeneral.com> <012201c0aabc$e352c580$0264000a@helter.org>

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Opps.. the second CHMOD command below should be:
chmod 704 /home/<USERDIR>/public_html

my apologies

Clint

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clint Martin" <clintm@cet.com>
To: "Alex Toushek" <toushek@canadiangeneral.com>
Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <FREEBSD-QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: Secure user dirs


> yes, if you have all the users being members of the same user group,  e.g:
> USERS.. you can do something like this:
>
> chmod 701 /home/*
> chmod 704 /home/<USERDIR>/public_html/*
>
>
> This will give each user's main directory permissions like:   RWX-----X
> wich will allow them FULL access to everything in thier own directories..
it
> will restrict other members of the USERS group (or whatever)  from
accessing
> anything in the directory (they won't even be able to chdir into it..)
and
> it will allow all other users/people NOT in the USERS group to be able to
> CHDIR into, but not read anything.. (they won't even be able to "ls" the
> directory..)
> the 704  permissions on each individual ./public_html/ directory is so
that
> APACHE, (or whatever you use as a server)  will be able to SCAN the
> public_html directory.. it technically doesn't have to be able to, but it
> may be nice for it to..
>
>
> Clint
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Toushek" <toushek@canadiangeneral.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 9:11 PM
> Subject: Secure user dirs
>
>
> > Is there an easy way to lock other users out of dirs? ie. to keep other
> > users from looking at the contents or downloading the contents of other
> > users apache htdocs files but still give apache access to serve the
pages?
> > This is on a webserver that multiple people have access to pretty much
> > everyone's dirs. Which is very bad I just want to try and lock them into
> > their own dir or lock access out of other users dirs. I have played with
> > file permissons with no success.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
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