[luau] Apache question

[Brian Chee]

Instead of fussing around with NIS, I wuz hoping someone knew how to
reconfig Apache to read a passwd file not in /etc? Ideally I'd like to rsync
over SSH, a passwd file from my NFS box (trying to migrate away from NFS
now) so that I can have apache export the /public_html directories for my
users.

So basically I'm looking for a config item that will tell apache to look in
a different location for the passwd file so that it can do a lookup of the
user's home directory. So far the apache documentation is less than helpful,
or I'm just not searching for the correct criteria.

The hassle is that we've got /home broken up into separate partitions (i.e.
/home/1 /home/2, etc) Otherwise if everyone was in a single /home directory
this would be trivial.

/brian chee

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