Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 21:35:04 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie <bsdisp@shadows.aeon.net> To: richards@herald.net (Richard Stanford) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The best way to allow users to access a WWW directory Message-ID: <199611231935.VAA29347@shadows.aeon.net> In-Reply-To: <32964B0F.3C88@herald.net> from Richard Stanford at "Nov 22, 96 04:53:35 pm"
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while we are on the subject, allow me to ask few questions i've been thinking lately... we're about to start isping in few weeks time. now, the way i've thought to run the webserver is that the users who want to make their pages themselves indeed go under http://www.soap.bar/~luser and the pages we make for the customers go under http://www.soap.bar/customer or just the http://www.customer.bar now, those lusers need to update their pages, and i'm not about to give out _any_ shell accounts. nada. actually the machine will not even have any telnetd. i'm planning to use other methods for connecting into it over the network... anyway, so i have to let them ftp into the machine. BUT, there's few probs i've realized i will still have... first, does anyone use this with any success/problems? now, how do i prevent the users from uploading pirated stuff there? i _will_ quota their space usage. i have no way, right? and i'm not sure if i've figured out a way to make it that when a lusers ftp's in the machine they are already in their home directory, but that should not be nothing more than just trivia... also, i believe it's another "trivial" thing to make, when the time comes, that www.soap.bar/~luser to point another machine from the server's configurations... (i'm using either apache or roxen, anyone have an opinion which one is better?) so, my question is, how vulnerable the machine is while it's still allowing the ftp access from dualup side of the network? (no way i will allow non local network ips ftp in) or am i being overly paranoid? i seem to forgotten any other questions i had about the subject... oooooh yes. will i get into the troubles with file permissions with my scheme? (running a script that sets them right every several minutes should not eat too much cpu, right?) and another thing, i am planning to let people have several email accounts under their address (that being luser.soap.bar, static ip too), am i digging myself into a any kind of hole with that setup? mickey -- mika ruohotie mika@aeon.net
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