[geeks] Apache rewrite-fu sought

[Phil Stracchino]

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I'm absolutely going to.  But I'd prefer to have a mechanism in
place to *automatically* prevent anyone from posting audio or video
files who isn't authorized to do so.


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