[Gllug] User/apache file permissions question

[Ken Smith]

I'm about to ask a really silly question - especially that its one I 
should know the answer to; but here goes.

I'm running a simple web server on a FC5 system. So far so good. There 
are a couple of sites hosted on it as virtualhosts and the html files 
are all subdirectories of /var/www/html. The actual conent of the site 
is owned by the relevant username and the group ownership is apache.

I want to give someone access to one of the directories via SCP to 
update the content. What is the recognised way of doing this.... without 
giving full access to everything....obviously.

On FC1 I put the html files in /home/username/subdirectory and directed 
apache to serve the content from there. It seems that some commercial 
hosts do something like this. That no longer works on FC5 - I think 
that's a setting in httpd.conf.

Another alternative is to put a link from  /home/username to 
/var/www/html/sitename but even though the html content of the site is 
owned by the username access is denied - I guess due to directory 
permissions.

Selinux is set permissive - so rather than re-invent the wheel - is 
there a recognised standard way this is done.

Thanks in advance

Ken

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