[luau] Apache question

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Thu Jan 15 12:44:00 PST 2004


On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:43:04AM -1000, Brian Chee wrote:
> 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.

That does not seem necessary.

> 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.

I can think of several kludges, but the easiest approach would
probably be overloading your UserDir directive with the paths.

-Vince



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