Re: [users@httpd] Allowing users access to their websites (Possibly OT?)

[Perl Whore <wh...@gmail.com>]

How about sftp without access to the shell? It's secure and most ftp
clients support the protocol.

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:50 PM, LuKreme <kr...@kreme.com> wrote:
> I have several users who have websites on my Apache 2.2.13/FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE server and I give them access to their files via webdav. This mostly has worked fine for years (Since FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE), but I occasionally have weird problems with webdav (especially with things like Drupal or WordPress installed), so I am looking for another solution.
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> I don't want to allow ftp access or any access to a shell on the machine, so what are my options. How are others doing this? (It seems that chroot jails and ftp are still the standard, or is that wrong)
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> My users are not sophisticated, and webdav is just about as complicated as they can manage. Anything with a shell prompt is going to be nothing but problems.
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