Web-accessible folder/script for all user accounts on WHM, how to?

kenshin23

• July 23, 2014 12:11

Hi all, I have a question regarding a web-accessible folder/script for all user accounts on WHM; I'm quite new to WHM/cPanel, so please bear with me on this. (I've already seen this:

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 24, 2014 12:38

  Hello :) This is a bad security practice and not something I could recommend. There is a thread here where this is discussed: Share Directory Across Multiple Accounts Thank you.

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  kenshin23

  • July 24, 2014 13:49

  Yes, I'm aware of the security implications, but I'm just trying to find a way to get this to work. An outside-the-box approach (as explained by my employer) would be to set up a cron job as root, that checks the contents of the uploaded images folder for each account every n minutes, and if there are images there, move them to each user's images folder, as needed. He mentioned using a lock file to make sure that no files are moved if there's an upload operation in progress. I figure that would be better, security-wise (obviously, care will be taken to make sure only image files are moved to the folders.)

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 24, 2014 19:07

  Yes, that workaround is similar to one of the solutions mentioned in the thread I referenced. Thank you.

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  kenshin23

  • July 24, 2014 20:32

  [quote="cPanelMichael, post: 1694511">Yes, that workaround is similar to one of the solutions mentioned in the thread I referenced. Thank you.
  Thank you very much for your help. The script + cron job solution is working perfectly so far, and with no security issues, I hope.

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