Re: web hosting file management tools

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:09:35AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm looking for tools to let users manage their own files in our apache
> server, instead of ftp/sftp. preferably by assigning user/pass to a
> directory (so they won't be able even to see sites owned by others.
> 
> any suggestions?

If I may I want to expand the question a little bit:

What policy do experienced administrators on this list have around
this issue?

I ask because as an inexperienced administrator I had to make
decisions about this: Recently two clients asked for the php
configuration to allow uploads by users.  So far I have refused to do
it and reconfigured apache to use suexec in stead.

Regards.
Johann
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