mod_autoindex/5015: IndexIgnore in .htaccess is governed by AllowOverride Options NOT AllowOverride Indexes

[Samuel Liddicott <sa...@bigwig.net>]

>Number:         5015
>Category:       mod_autoindex
>Synopsis:       IndexIgnore in .htaccess is governed by AllowOverride Options NOT AllowOverride Indexes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 15 14:50:01 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     sam@bigwig.net
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.9
>Environment:
Linux 2.0.36 #7 Tue Jan 12 17:06:38 GMT 1999 i586 unknown
>Description:
The only work arround to this involves giving users too much permissions.

To allow IndexIgnore directives in users .htaccess files I have to use
AllowOverride Options
or
AllowOverride All

Unlike the documentation:
AllowOverride Indexes
does not help.

The trouble is if I AllowOverride Options
users can give themselves CGI permissions!
>How-To-Repeat:
In access.conf
<Directory /home/*/www*>
Options Includes FollowSymLinks Indexes -ExecCGI
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes

order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
and serve a user page with IndexIgnore in the .htaccess and you get "internal server error"
Add "Options" to AllowOveride (restart apache) and suddenly, no server error.
>Fix:
No.  I looked in the source and I can't workout why options has this effect, but it plainly does!
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