Hi,
I've setup apache 2.0.40 to run as a user(gary) and group(apache) but it can read all user directories in /home/. So say
/home/user1
/home/user2
/home/user3
They can all read each other because the user directories have to be chmod 770 to enable apache to read the files in the directory. I want to stop this because if I run a perl script that reads the directories in /home/ then things are not secure and i'll be adding some users in the next couple of days and I want to stop them from possibly reading other each others directories.

How do I do this anyone.

Thanks

Gary Mayor

you can chmod /home and /home/user* to make them not viewable by users..
then you can create a public_html directory to put the files in.

but when apache can read the directory, everybode can

securing /home already makes things harder for users to find other users home dir

I see your point it is much better than what i've got at the moment shall be implementing it immediately.

Cheers