On 2014-12-22 15:33, James Dugger wrote:
> Hey Keith. Is this for a production or development environment? 

Production

For
> prod, I have typically seen no home directory for users other than
> root (for both Debian based or RHEL).  In either distribution you can
> explicitly assign a different home folder so you can do
> /var/www/public_html as the accessible directory using the --home
> option.   If you need that user to be able to ssh into the web
> server than you can give them access by adding them into the
> ssh_config file (I forget the details) but search Ubuntu how to for
> this. 

I tie the vhost and user together so there is an sftp path to upload 
content.

How would you upload content if you have multiple vhosts and only one 
user?

> 
> Since you are adding DNS and email (these would typically be different
> servers in production), this may make it more difficult to not have a
> default separate home folder.

I agree they would normally be separate.  However this server is in my 
home office so everything needs to be in one box.

> 
> Nothing Says you have to do it this way. But in production the idea is
> to reduce the accessible footprint of all users to the minimum needed
> access.
> 

Makes sense.

Thank you for your feedback.


>  Hi,
> 
>  I decided to move to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS after 7 years with
> RHEL/CentOS.  I'm very used to RHEL and am experiencing an adjustment
> with this move.
> 
>  With RHEL I would add a user and use that user as the docroot
> (/home/username/public_html) for the associated vhost.  This would
> give ssh access (after adding to the sshd_config) and sftp access.
> 
>  When I add a user to Ubuntu it does not create a home directory.
> 
>  When I did the install I selected LAMP,DNS, and mail servers.
> 
>  I was not able to shell into the server and found SSH had not been
> installed.  I was surprised.  I installed SSHD and now I can access
> the box via the shell.
> 
>  I'm starting to get the feeling I am approaching this build
> incorrectly.
> 
>  I want to build 1 box that handles LAMP+DNS+Mail
> (Postfix+Dovecot+Spamassassin+MySql) Looks like the install did a lot
> of the heavy lifting by instating and configuring everything.
> 
>  So my main question is, am I going about this correctly or am I not
> understanding the difference between Ubuntu and RHEL?
> 
>  Thanks a bunch!!
> 
>  Keith
> 
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