On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote:
> As I understood the first post he doesn't actually have users on the
> system (proftpd users in sql?) so that wouldn't work. What I would
> do is probably run the webserver as nobody/nogroup and make sure that
> nothing is writable by that user/group.

s/nobody nogroup/httpd httpd/ (or similar).

nobody is NOT designed to be used as a generic user. lots of other
programs use it (incorrectly). IIRC, it was created to be used for NFS,
and NFS only.. you are much safer using a user for the webserver itself.

> If on the other hand he has actual users on the system I would go for
> suexec that comes with Apache.

but of course. :)

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