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Re: Permissions on /root/



On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:16:38PM +0100, Thomas Sj?gren wrote:
> > root is not the regular user. Users need o+x on their home dirs for
> > Apache to be able to serve pages.
> 
> No they don't.
> You shouldn't place user websites in their home dirs. Place the user
> "webspace" in e.g  /var/www/[user] and symlink from public_html or
> whatever.

I sometimes do, however it complicated the back up of
individuals. With rsync these days, the user backup 
problem on a rack of machines is pretty moot, so 
I'll give you that.

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