Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] filemanager and phpwebhosting apps in setup

[Jason Wies]

This is a very temporary conflict.  Assuming a site used both filemanager and 
phpwebhosting in parallel (unlikely in itself), the only conflict would be a 
user named 'home', because 'users' and 'groups' in phpwebhosting would be 
inside of the home directory.

Any future file management apps, or existing apps such as email that make use 
of files must go through the VFS, and therefore work in the same filespace as 
all other file management apps.  User's home directories are shared among all 
apps, and there is built-in support for ".application" directories like those 
commonly used in Unix filesystems.  Just as important, home directories are in 
a separate directory ("/home"), so any app wishing to use the filesystem in a 
non-standard or unique way need only to create it's own directory in the root 
directory ("/") to be guaranteed separate from other applications that use the 
filesystem.

I think this handles the future applications of the file system quite well, 
incorporating a global filespace shared among all of phpGroupWare, while 
allowing any single application to utilize it's own private space, either on a 
global or per-user scale.

Jason Wies aka Zone

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:24:49PM +0100, Peter Andersson wrote:
> I'm a phpGroupWare newbie, but I think I got this right.
> 
> In the setup it seems to me that the Filemanager path setting is also used
> by phpWebhosting.
> To me this seems dangerous (not security),
> It's confusing and erronous that two different apps (one using 'users' and
> 'groups' dirs under setup path and the other using 'home' dir).
> 
> At least to me this means that if I want both apps working, I cannot have a
> user 'home' using Filemanager, and connot have user 'users' nor user
> 'groups' using phpWebhosting.
> 
> Maybe you guys want it this way?
> I would personnaly want it to be two separate settings. It would be much
> clearer, and more futureproof. (New file apps need new basedirs).
> 
> 
> Anyway, thanks for this M$ killer. The whole thing seems well made and
> definately has potentials.
> 
> 
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