Bug 87979

Summary: recommended way of enabling public_html exposes users' files in /home/user/
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: sysadmin <sysadmin>
Component: rhl-cgAssignee: Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox>
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Description sysadmin 2003-04-04 09:08:32 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The docs for enabling public_html for user joeblow instruct, in part:

chmod o+x /home/joeblow

And, by default, user files are created o+r.  

This combination allows anyone with a shell account to access the files in
/home/joeblow/ 

It seems to me that RHL's default configuration should not lead to this result.



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
follow RH's recommended procedure for enabling public_html directories

Additional info:
Comment 1 sysadmin 2003-04-04 16:28:55 UTC 
I forgot to mention that you'd have to know the name of a file in joeblow's home
directory in order to access it.
Comment 2 Tammy Fox 2003-04-04 16:32:02 UTC 
Which RH documentation are you referring to? The component has been changed to
rhl-cg, but the Customization Guide doesn't include this information.
Comment 3 sysadmin 2003-04-05 10:49:12 UTC 
i don't have them handy - maybe i was looking at some pre-upgrade docs - can you
tell me what the current recommended way of enabling public_html directories is?
Comment 4 Tammy Fox 2003-04-05 15:50:10 UTC 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-apache-config.html

Look for the UserDir directive.