[gollem] File Driver and multiple users

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at mail.curecanti.org
Thu Feb 9 12:21:33 PST 2006


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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