[Gllug] User/apache file permissions question

[Ken Smith]

Ken Smith wrote:

> 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
>
Any ideas on this folks.....

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