----- "Hajo Locke" <hajo.locke@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello List, > > a question to mod_dav. Some providers offer mod_dav to edit files > which are > also editable/writeable by ftp-user? > In most cases ftp-users/apacheuser are different to avoid security > problems. > Whats the trick to make this possible without security risk? It's not so much a trick.. You reverse-proxy DAV (write) requests to a back-end which is running on an unprivileged port, as an unprivileged user, who has the permission to do writes on the FS. > could imagine a special user/group setup but all my solutions result > in > securityproblems by to much readability. > > Thanks, > Hajo > bye, i -- Igor GaliÄ Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.galic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx