Re: Re: Permissions on Apache; 403

Mark Broadbent <m.broadbent-t1U/X/Bkr/[email protected]> Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:13:31 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tao.general
Organization QinetiQ Ltd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Uwe Dippel wrote:

>On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:19:35 +0100, Mark Broadbent wrote:
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>>Make sure that execute permision is set on the users home directory 
>>(i.e. chmod o+x /home/user).
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>>Thanks
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>Wrong; ;) Thank You !
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>That was it. Always trying to learn: what is the underlying change /
>reason ? 
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I would think it is because you have user private groups set-up as the 
default on your system. See 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-users-groups-private-groups.html 
for more details about why this is good. :-)

Thanks
Mark

>Uwe
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