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Re: [cobalt-users] Symbolic Link?



On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Henry J. Cobb wrote:

> Does the version of Apache that comes with the cobalt servers follow
> symbolic links?
> 
> -HJC

I don't know about all different cobalt's, but looking at a raq3's
access.conf, it enables FollowSymLinks first (bad idea, imo), but further
down the config file it changes to SymLinkIfOwnerMatch. A small
inconsistency in the config file, but it's clear what it does; the secure
way.

Greets,
John 

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