[gollem] File Driver and multiple users

[Julian Pace Ross]

Hi Michael,
I ran into this problem too, using Apache. Changing the UID of all
the directories the users need to access, to the Apache UID did not make
sense to me.
What I did was install an ftp server (vsftpd): is very easily
configurable through one conf file, and can be run as a daemon or through
xinetd. Make it listen only on 127.0.0.1 if it makes you feel safer. I
configured the gollem ftp backend and was up and running within less than an
hour..
Good FAQ: www.vsftpdrocks.org

Cheers
Julian



On 09/02/06, Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at mail.curecanti.org> wrote:
>
> Quoting Ciro Duran <ciro.duran at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm building a Horde site and I'd like to give my users the capability
> > of checking their own home. They all have UNIX accounts and their
> > homes are mounted on localhost, so using an FTP server is too much
> > hassle in my opinion (and insecure). Therefore, I'm configuring gollem
> > to use the file driver. (Using verion gollem H3 1.0.1)
> >
> > The problem comes that gollem will manipulate the files and
> > directories using the apache UID and GID; the only bit of information
> > I've found until now is this comment in the backends.php config file:
> >
> > // NOTE: /exampledir/home and all subdirectories should be, for
> > // security reasons, owned by your web server user and mode 700 or you
> > // will need to use suexec or something else that can adjust the web
> > // server effective uid.
> >
> > But there is no more information about how getting gollem to use
> > suexec to manipulate users' files. Any pointers to this?
>
> No.  This is completely web server specific so you will need to read
> your web server documentation to figure out if you can do this and, if
> so, how to do this.  If you do figure this out, a wiki entry
> (http://wiki.horde.org/) would be a great way to give back to the
> community.
>
> michael
>
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