[geeks] Apache rewrite-fu sought

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Wed Jun 20 16:19:33 CDT 2007


On Jun 20, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> I have a problem user who has been trying to use his account here as a
> quite widely-published music server (and not only that, for  
> copyrighted
> Warner Bros themes).  Aside from the potential liability, he's been
> sucking up huge chunks of my outgoing bandwidth.  I've slapped his  
> hand
> and told him to sin no more, and chmod'd all the offending files 000,
> but I'm seeking to guard against further abuse.  Once I get it working
> in the first place, I'll add a condition to block by MIME types,  
> but for
> the moment I'm just filename matching.

Watch him and if he does it again, boot him without mercy.

--Patrick



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