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Looking for a book or source on how to put up a website where
multi-users can have their own website ie: www.xxx.com/~user, where they
can upload to their allocated space and CHROOT to their directory only.

On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 09:20:40 -0500, Steve

Quote:>Looking for a book or source on how to put up a website where
>multi-users can have their own website ie: www.xxx.com/~user, where they
>can upload to their allocated space and CHROOT to their directory only.

Read the documentation for Apache, paying particular attention to the
UserDir option in the configuration file.  If that's set as "html", then
anyone requesting http://blah.com/~me will get directed to /home/me/html/
.

For the chroot behavior you desire, put the usernames in the
file /etc/ftpchroot (check docs on your FTP daemon; this is correct for
in.ftpd but may not be for others.)

You'll want to turn on disk quotas too.

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I am on 2 systems that do that.  They chroot ftp, refuse telnet access,
yet I can see anything on the system I have permission to see from CGI.
Although, CGI runs as the user, so it is easy to hide any CGI related
scripts (chmod 700) or data (chmod 600) from prying eyes.

If he wants everything chroot including telnet and cgi running on the
webserver, it is a bit more complicated than that.  Basically all
necessary binaries and libs have to be duplicated or linked to the users
home dir.  I wouldn't want to be on such a system because I help people,
and you cannot help other users if you cannot see anything, even if they
want you to.

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