Bug 5011

Summary: /home/httpd is a bad location in home automount environments
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: George Karabin <gkarabin>
Component: apacheAssignee: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description George Karabin 1999-09-09 05:10:26 UTC 
I recently started switching my companies Linux boxes to use
the company's home directory server. Home directories are
automounted via a map file exported by the NIS server.

The thing is, /home is an automounted directory (via NFS).
It seems to be a bad thing to install to /home/httpd, since
you cannot have unique /home/httpd directories for all of
the NIS clients on the network. While NIS home directories
could just as easily be automounted somewhere else, like
/nishome, most other unixes only install "real" user
directories to /home.

The net result is, I think Red Hat should make the
/home/httpd directory elsewhere, along with any other such
directories (see my bug filed against samba).
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-09-09 13:01:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5010 ***