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RE: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. May 14 2004 06:19PM Michael Wojcik (Michael Wojcik microfocus com) (1 replies) Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. May 14 2004 06:49PM David Malone (dwmalone cnri dit ie) (2 replies) Re: Curious fileutils/coreutils behaviour. May 15 2004 07:58AM Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha (strange nsk no-ip org) (1 replies) |
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The server will only follow symbolic links for which the target file
or directory is owned by the same user id as the link.
*Note*: this option gets ignored if set inside a <Location> section.
From http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#options
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
>On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 07:49:07PM +0100, David Malone wrote:
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>>>(*)Contrary to the FAQ entry you cited, it is sometimes useful to change the
>>>ownership of a symlink. Since the owner of a symlink can be detected by a
>>>program, there can exist programs which depend on it.
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>>Yes, indeed. As another example, Apache has an option to only follow
>>symlinks if they belong to the right person.
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>If the target belongs to the right person, not the symlink itself.
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>Regards,
>Luciano Rocha
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