CentOS - Nov 2012 - How can I prevent apache from mounting all home directories?

We use automounted user home directories on our CentOS 6.3 desktops, and on the
desktops on which we start apache, I have noticed that all 900+ home directories
listed in NIS get (and stay!) mounted.  If I don't start apache, this
doesn't happen.

We don't need access to home directories from apache, so I would like to
prevent apache from mounting these home directories, but I haven't been able
to figure out how to do it.  We use the stock httpd.conf file, and I commented
out the "LoadModule userdir_module" line to no avail.  Any other
suggestions?

Alfred

On 19.11.2012 16:14, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> We use automounted user home directories on our CentOS 6.3 desktops,
> and on the desktops on which we start apache, I have noticed that all
> 900+ home directories listed in NIS get (and stay!) mounted.  If I
> don't start apache, this doesn't happen.
>
> We don't need access to home directories from apache, so I would like
> to prevent apache from mounting these home directories, but I haven't
> been able to figure out how to do it.  We use the stock httpd.conf
> file, and I commented out the "LoadModule userdir_module" line to
no
> avail.  Any other suggestions?
Instead of omitting LoadModule you could try to leave it enabled, but 
specify a different userdir, i.e. not under /home.

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Nux!
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> We use automounted user home directories on our CentOS 6.3 desktops, and
> on the desktops on which we start apache, I have noticed that all 900+
> home directories listed in NIS get (and stay!) mounted.  If I don't
start
> apache, this doesn't happen.
>
> We don't need access to home directories from apache, so I would like
to
> prevent apache from mounting these home directories, but I haven't been
> able to figure out how to do it.  We use the stock httpd.conf file, and I
> commented out the "LoadModule userdir_module" line to no avail. 
Any other
> suggestions?
>
> Alfred
If I may...why are you running Apache on your desktops?
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just
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On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:20, Nux! wrote:
> Instead of omitting LoadModule you could try to leave it enabled, but 
> specify a different userdir, i.e. not under /home.
There is no reference to /home anywhere that I can find.  I assume that apache
just expands ~ to list all home directories and then it mounts them.

Alfred

On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:14, I wrote:
> We use automounted user home directories on our CentOS 6.3 desktops, and on
the desktops on which we start apache, I have noticed that all 900+ home
directories listed in NIS get (and stay!) mounted.  If I don't start apache,
this doesn't happen.
After trying and failing to reproduce the problem on a test RHEL 6.3 server, I
compared the apache configs on the two servers and noticed one difference: the
CentOS system had mod_dnssd installed.  After doing a "yum erase
mod_dnssd" (which also removed gnome-user-share) the issue went away. 
Problem SOLVED!

Alfred