From: "William Stanard" <wstanard@palmertrinity.org>
To: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: keeping legitimate users out of public_html
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:49:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc.004c4e0000637dea004c4e00006307dc.637dfd@palmertrinity.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20040915100132.01f29c78@celine>
Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com> writes:
>At 08:15 AM 9/15/2004 -0400, William Stanard wrote:
>>I help students manage a school intranet website on a machine running Red
>>Hat 2.4.18-14 and Apache 2.0.40.
>>
>>How do I keep my student users with accounts on the machine from being
>>able to access, via Putty, /home/bobo/public_html, the directory in which
>>I keep all of the content for the site, including tests and quizzes for
>my
>>students' online use?
>>
>> I can password protect, using .htaccess, specific directories from
>>"unauthorized" access, but I would like to provide similar protection for
>>the /home/bobo/public_html/Prog/tests directory. If I change permissions
>>via chmod, however, then Apache will not be able to serve the pages to
>the
>>intranet.
>
>This is actually a tricky problem, taking you into one of the blurry
>areas
>of Unix/Linux permissions. One way to solve it: first check what userid
>apache is running under and what groups that userid is part of.
Thank you very much for the reply. I am using what you said and what
Stephen posted to solve the problem.... but, and this seems so simple, I
am embarrassed to ask, how do I determine what userid apache is running
under?
Bill Stanard
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fc.004c4e00006307dc004c4e00006307dc.6308bf@palmertrinity.o rg>
2004-09-15 17:14 ` keeping legitimate users out of public_html Ray Olszewski
2004-09-20 13:59 ` Stephen Samuel
2004-09-20 16:49 ` William Stanard [this message]
[not found] ` <fc.004c4e0000637dea004c4e00006307dc.637dfd@palmertrinity.o rg>
2004-09-20 17:31 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-09-15 12:15 William Stanard
2004-09-15 12:20 ` William Stanard
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