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Re: relaxing permissions on psutils locker

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Feb 18 13:22:14 2009

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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:21:30 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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>> >The current psutils locker has system:authuser:rl.  Does anyone know
>> >if there would be a problem with adding mit rl to the ACL
>>
>> This should be OK provided that the IP ranges stay within MIT 

>If there's a real issue with distributing the content to the world
>at large, you should know that if we add mit to the ACL, this means
>that the MIT webservers will suddenly have access to the files, and
>people will be able to download them (from anywhere)

>This can be thwarted if we also add a .htaccess.mit file

Thanks Mitch- Jonathon, could you please include the .htaccess.mit file?
We definitely can't make this world-accessible.

                                             Alex

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