[Fedora] Re: Separate shell and www servers...

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

David L Norris wrote:

>For example, one web host I use does this:
>  /usr/home  - Home
>  /usr/www   - Web (Apache DocumentRoot)
>  /usr/boxes - Mailboxes
>
>So, user "bob" would have these directories:
>  /usr/home/bob
>  /usr/www/bob
>  /usr/boxes/bob
>  
>
    However, how do you deal with automatic user creation, and assigning 
permissions to, say /usr/www/bob?  When you use useradd to add a new 
user, it only assigns permissions to the $HOME directory.  As far as I 
can see, I'd have to manually go create /usr/www/bob, and chown it to 
user bob.