On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:15 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Aaron Gaudio wrote: > > >Sorry, haven't been following the thread, but why would want normal > >users to have write access within /usr/www? > > > The original thread wasn't about giving users access to /usr/www (or > /var/www in my case). The original thread was to separate our shell > server from web server (which right now reside on the same physical > machine.) I want two separate machines, and the problem I'm faced with > is how to have each user's www space be on the other machine, while > still giving them their own access/permission to their files when they > log on to the shell server. Ahh, now I understand the topic a littel better :) But why can't your web server nfs mount the user home dirs (or a portion thereof, if you don't want to give the webserver nfs access to their non-web dirs)? Using autofs (maybe with a custom autofs script) could help facilitate that.
