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Re: Users deleting public_html and log causing Apache to fail startup



On Thu, 04 Jul 2002, Chris Wagner wrote:

> >On Fri, 05 Jul 2002, Jason Lim wrote:
> >They don't have write access to its parent directory:
> >
> >weasel@valiant:~/test$ mkdir public_html
> >weasel@valiant:~/test$ sudo chown root. .
> >weasel@valiant:~/test$ rmdir public_html 
> >rmdir: `public_html': Permission denied
> >weasel@valiant:~/test$ ls -la
> >total 16
> >drwxrwxr-x    3 root     root         4096 Jul  5 02:28 ./
> >drwxr-xr-x  135 weasel   weasel       8192 Jul  5 02:28 ../
> >drwxrwxr-x    2 weasel   weasel       4096 Jul  5 02:28 public_html/

To go into some details, I have a setup like this:

(owned by)   (directory)
root         client1/
root         client1/logs/
root         client1/site1/
client1      client1/site1/cgi-bin/
client1      client1/site1/htdocs/
root         client1/site2/
client1      client1/site2/cgi-bin/
client1      client1/site2/htdocs/
root         client1/site3/
client1      client1/site3/cgi-bin/
client1      client1/site3/htdocs/
root         client1/site4/
client1      client1/site4/cgi-bin/
client1      client1/site4/htdocs/
root         client2
root         client2/logs/
root         client2/site1/
client2      client2/site1/cgi-bin/
client2      client2/site1/htdocs/
root         client2/site2/
client2      client2/site2/cgi-bin/
client2      client2/site2/htdocs/
[..]


> But won't "rmdir ." succeed if they are in the public_html directory?

rmdirs _below_ client1/site1/cgi-bin/ and client1/site1/htdocs/ would
all work.

rmdirs of client1/site1/htdocs/, or client1/site1/cgi-bin/ themselves
will not work as that requires modifying the parent directory
(client1/site1) for which the client has no write priviliges.


[that quoting thing goes for you too]
					yours,
					peter

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