Re: apt and publicfile's httpd

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:32:20 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.publicfile
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> Am I supposed to do this in every directory for httpd?  Can you
> explain what is going on?

I guess it's a security measure, to prevent clients from accessing
files that they aren't supposed to see.  (E.g., /foo/../../blah.)
Either create lots of symlinks, or patch apt so it strips out (or
stops inserting) the /./ component.


paul