[Fedora] Re: Separate shell and www servers...

[Aaron Gaudio]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:15 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> 
> >Sorry, haven't been following the thread, but why would want normal
> >users to have write access within /usr/www?
> >
>     The original thread wasn't about giving users access to /usr/www (or 
> /var/www in my case).  The original thread was to separate our shell 
> server from web server (which right now reside on the same physical 
> machine.)  I want two separate machines, and the problem I'm faced with 
> is how to have each user's www space be on the other machine, while 
> still giving them their own access/permission to their files when they 
> log on to the shell server.

Ahh, now I understand the topic a littel better :)

But why can't your web server nfs mount the user home dirs (or a portion
thereof, if you don't want to give the webserver nfs access to their
non-web dirs)? Using autofs (maybe with a custom autofs script) could
help facilitate that.