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Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders



On Thu, 30 May 2002 09:28:34 -0500
"dman" <dman@dman.ddts.net> wrote:

> To fix existing home directories, if they are all in /home/,
> 
>     chmod o-r /home/*
> 
> Note that you want the directories *executable* so that apache (for
> example) can "cd" to ~/public_html/ for serving user's pages.
> 

Don't they need to be readable in order to be accessible to Apache?
I had my home directory o-r but sometimes certain programs could not read my user config files, so I had to make my /home/user directory o+r   I had this problem with Procmail after installing Cyrus; it could not read my ~/.procmailrc



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