From: Anders B Jansson (hdwkallisti.se)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 15:28:43 CST

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Is loopback mounting the homedirs somewhere under /var/www (with
ro,nosuid and such) a bad idea?

The issue I see with the linking is that you/users/someone have to
decide where to put their disk(quota).

With a loopback it's the same disk/partition.

// hdw
Ben Goren wrote:
> Nice idea, bad implementation.
>
> Permit me to use an example. I'm making all this up in this email, so
> please pardon typos.
>
> $ ls -F /var/www/htdocs
> index.html ~jane/ ~john/
> $ ls -lF /home/{jane,john}
> /home/john:
> total 0
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 john john 16 Oct 16 14:50 public_html ->
> /var/www/htdocs/~john
>
> /home/jane:
> total 0
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 jane jane 47 Oct 2 14:33 public_html ->
> /var/www/htdocs/~jane
>
> There's no need for union mounts, monkeying with httpd.conf, disabling
> chroot, or anything else. If you're doing this sort of thing a lot, a
> three-line shell script is all you need to automate it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> b&
>
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