Is there some reason why you can't give each user an account and have them put their files in ~/public_html? That would have their page show up at domain.net/~username/. Sorry if you already knew this and I'm misunderstanding the problem. On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 00:03:59 +0200 Juan Antonio Agudo <tag@gmx.de> wrote: > Okay, I already posted this message to debian-users, but please don't > flame me - i just figured that maybe debian-security is the better place > to post a request for help like this. Clearly enough this is a security > concern, after all. So maybe you could be so kind and help me out on > this one: > > I want to enable some friends of mine to host their web pages on my > woody server. It has Apache LAMP running in great shape and it suits my > Web page just fine. The Problem that I have now is, that the apache user > is www-data. Well, I guessed I could just change the user permissions on > the /var/www/<path.to.site> directories to the respective user names, > but that doesnt do the trick, because then, all write permissions for > cgi scripts for these diretories are gone, as they no longer belong to > www-data. > > Nevertheless I just want my friends to stop go poking around in foreign > web sites, and at the same time have access to perl/php scripting.Where > do I go from here? I am not a particularly guru-like administrator, so I > am a bit afraid of using setuid. After all I do not even know, if that > would do the trick. > > All help is really, really appreciated very much. > > P.S.: I googled quite thoroughly, but couldn't get anywhere near my > problem. Maybe I just used the wrong words, because I can't believe I am > the only one with this problem > > Yours Truly, > Toni -- Tim Cunningham "I'm not claiming to be deep, I'm claiming to do it for fun." - Linus Torvalds
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