Restricting users to their own home directories / not letting users view other users files...?

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:22:17AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote:
> 
> OK, I'm sure this question has been asked a million times, but I havn't
> been able to find a straight answer that actually solves the problem, so
> here goes.
> 
> We have a FreeBSD server with multiple users. I would rather each user
> *not* be able to view other users' files via an SSH or SFTP session. i.e.
> if I'm logged in as "keith" I should *not* get a list of files when I do
> "ls /home/shannon"
> 
> I realize I can fix this by setting the permissions on the "/home/shannon"
> directory to 700. *However* then Apache (running as user "www") won't
> display the documents in "/home/shannon/public_html" from
> "http://ip-address/~shannon/", instead returning a "403 Forbidden" error.
> 
> Sooo... how can I set this up so that users can't view other user's files,
> but Apache still works?

Chmod the homedirs to 700. And write a script that copies the user's
html files/directories (if they have changed) to a location where apache
can access them. Run this script as a cronjob for root.

Alternatively, maybe you could use ACLs to grant group www access of the
home directories. See setfacl(1). [I've never had the need to try this,
so I'm not sure].

Roland
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