Re: Cannot authenticate (after six years) (Apache Users)

Andrew,

You're missing the point - if you chmod /home/user to 755, *everyone* on your system can navigate to your home directory and potentially read sensitive files.

If this is not a multi-user system, the issue is not as severe; it's still a bad idea, nonetheless. A better approach is to move the content out of /home/user and just create a symlink to the content or bash alias if you want more convenience.

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 4:53 AM Andrew Hoff <andrew.hoff@xxxxxxxxxxx.invalid> wrote:

Dear Frank,

chmod 755; I remembered immediately and did that first. I do everything via symlinks and/or perl 5/7 scripts, e.g. a perl script lists directory contents in index.html. As I said everything works.

Apache is a great product and the inbuilt perl interpreter is pretty good. I have learnt my lesson and will now use semanage to effectively document custom settings.

Regards,
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On Sun, 2023-07-30 at 09:20 -0400, Frank Gingras wrote:
Data in home directories is indeed a problem for shared systems, since you have to chmod the /home/user directory.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 8:53 AM Andrew Hoff <andrew.hoff@xxxxxxxxxxx.invalid> wrote:
Hello,

I have resolved ALL issues. Nearly all problems were related to selinux. It is lucky I made some notes.

Data in home directories is not a problem. It was just selinux.

Regards,