On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 11:12 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 09:18, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > However, how do you deal with automatic user creation, and assigning > > permissions to, say /usr/www/bob? When you use useradd to add a new > > user, it only assigns permissions to the $HOME directory. As far as I > > can see, I'd have to manually go create /usr/www/bob, and chown it to > > user bob. > > > > You script it, that's how. Note that the following is "pseudo-code" and > will need work, but it should give you a rough general idea. > Sorry, haven't been following the thread, but why would want normal users to have write access within /usr/www? Wouldn't it be better to set apache up to use $HOME/public_html (or whatever you like)? You can even configure it so you don't need the ~ in the url (e.g. http://mybox/bob instead of http://mybox/~bob), or if you want, you could probably set it up to allow http://bob.mybox/. At any rate, allowing generic user write access to /usr/www doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Just my $0.02.
