Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:32:37PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> 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?
Readable lets you list a directory. Executable lets you access files or
directories within that directory whose names you already know. Apache
needs the latter to find ~/public_html.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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