Since there are alot of people asking for it, here is my HowTo about mod_ruid2
This is based on my CentOS server with Apache 2.x.

Installing this module its no longer needed to chmod config files to 666 or upload/attachments directories to 777. Since with this module enabled everything @ HTTP will run under the user itself and not ‘apache’ anymore.

** If you are using mod_ruid instead of mod_ruid2, first of all remove the mod_ruid line from ‘/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf‘

First, we are going to install libcap-devel
yum -y install libcap-devel
After this is done we are going to download and install mod_ruid2
wget http://dave.t0xic.nl/tars/mod_ruid2-0.9.tar.bz2
tar xjf mod_ruid2-0.9.tar.bz2
cd mod_ruid2-0.9
apxs -a -i -l cap -c mod_ruid2.c

Now, if you didn’t get any errors mod_ruid2 should be installed and added to the ‘/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf‘.
Lets confirm mod_ruid2 is added
grep 'mod_ruid2' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
If you get any response like below its installed

LoadModule ruid2_module /usr/lib/apache/mod_ruid2.so

Now we need to modify the DA httpd.conf templates a little bit to enable mod_ruid2 for the users

Now copy the template files to custom
cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/
cp virtual_host2* custom/
chown -R diradmin:diradmin custom/

Now you have copied the original templates to the ‘custom’ directory, so they won’t be overwritten.

Now follow the steps below for each virtual_host2 file you’ve copied
nano -w virtual_host2.conf

## replace line: SuexecUserGroup |USER| |GROUP|
## replace with: #SuexecUserGroup |USER| |GROUP|
## Add the lines below under the just replaced line
RMode config
RUidGid |USER| |GROUP|
RGroups apache

Save the files and lets rewrite the HTTPd config files
echo "action=rewrite&value=httpd" >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue

If you want you can start the rewrite of the HTTPd config files manually, just paste the line below and wait when its done
/usr/local/directadmin/dataskq d800
After the rewrite is complete you can restart HTTPd with the command below
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
Now mod_ruid2 should be installed and you don’t need to chmod anymore like ‘chmod 666 config.php’ or ‘chmod 777 uploads’.

To be sure the webmail clients etc still works we need to change the owner permissions
chown -R webapps:webapps /var/www/html

** Questions with Answers **
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Q: How can I test this is working?
A: Easy, install some CMS that you are used before. Like WordPress, Joomla that required (before!!) chmod 666 or 777 to get install/working.

Q: I’ve dirs/files owned by apache for some users, must I change this?
A: Yes, you need to give the dirs/files owner of the user itself, not apache anymore. Check below
Thanks for snk for the commands below, to fix the owner permissions of the dirs/files

cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts && ./set_permissions.sh user_homes
find /home/*/domains/*/public_html -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 711
find /home/*/domains/*/public_html -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
cd /usr/local/directadmin/data/users && for i in `ls`; do { chown -R $i:$i /home/$i/domains/*/public_html;}; done;

* Added ‘&&’ so if they do a typo, it won’t change anything.

You are missing a question, or you have a question, please let me know and I’ll try to answer them for you!

RPM

For RPMs you need two command line utilities, rpm2cpio and cpio. Extracting the contents of the RPM package is an one-step process:
rpm2cpio mypackage.rpm | cpio -vid
If you just need to list the contents of the package without extracting them, use the following:
rpm2cpio mypackage.rpm | cpio -vt
The -v option is used in order to get verbose output to the stdout. If you don’t need it, you can safely omit this switch. For more information about the cpio options, please refer to the cpio(1) manual page.

DEB

DEB files are ar archives, which contain three files:

• debian-binary
• control.tar.gz
• data.tar.gz

As you might have already guessed, the needed archived files exist in data.tar.gz. It is also obvious that unpacking this file is a two-step process.

First, extract the aforementioned three files from the DEB file (ar archive):
tar vx mypackage.deb
Then extract the contents of data.tar.gz using tar:
tar -xzvf data.tar.gz
Or, if you just need to get a listing of the files:
tar -tzvf data.tar.gz
Again the -v option in both ar and tar is used in order to get verbose output. It is safe not to use it. For more information, read the man pages: tar(1) and ar(1).

If anyone knows an one-step process to extract the contents of the data.tar.gz, I’d be very interested in it!

Update

tar p mypackage.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx

If you need to update all server accounts, just type in the following command as root:

echo "action=tally&value=all" >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue

In order to update stats for a single domain, here is another command:

/usr/bin/webalizer -p -n |DOMAIN| -o /home/|USER|/domains/|DOMAIN|/stats /var/log/httpd/domains/|DOMAIN|.log

Just replace |USER| with domain username and |DOMAIN| with domain itself and have fun!

Here is an easy way to accomplish transferring backup files from one server to another in linux. Just simple command using SCP (secure file copy)

scp -C -P portnumber local_filename root@your.ip.address:destination_file

Example:
scp -C -P 2929 backups.tar.gz root@IP.ADDRESS:/home/backups/

-C is compression to speed up transfer.
-r is for recursive
-P is your SSH port number (default ssh port 22)
[If you are running SSH other than default port you will need to specify this]

NOTE:
Dont forget that if you are running a firewall (CSF or APF) make sure that your unblock port in your EG_TCP_PORT (outbound TCP port) in your local host.

#!/bin/sh
#This script sets the number of queries, updates, and logins a new MySQL user can perform

#Limits (setting these options to 0 removes the limit)
MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR=30000
MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR=20000
MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR=5000
MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS=100

#We get DirectAdmin MySQL root user and password here
DA_MYSQL=/usr/local/directadmin/conf/mysql.conf
MYSQLUSER=`grep “^user=” ${DA_MYSQL} | cut -d= -f2`
MYSQLPASSWORD=`grep “^passwd=” ${DA_MYSQL} | cut -d= -f2`

mysql -e “GRANT ALL ON ${database}.* TO ${user}@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘${passwd}’ WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR ${MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR} MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR ${MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR} MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR ${MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR} MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS ${MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS};” –user=${MYSQLUSER} –password=${MYSQLPASSWORD}
exit 0;

Give them chmod 755:

chmod 755 /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/database_user_create_post.sh
chmod 755 /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/database_create_post.sh

And you’re done. Happy using!

P.S. if you want to set a limit for all current MySQL users, use the following script:

#!/bin/sh

#Limits (setting these options to 0 removes the limit)
MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR=30000
MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR=20000
MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR=5000
MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS=100

#We get DirectAdmin MySQL root user and password here
DA_MYSQL=/usr/local/directadmin/conf/mysql.conf
MYSQLUSER=`grep “^user=” ${DA_MYSQL} | cut -d= -f2`
MYSQLPASSWORD=`grep “^passwd=” ${DA_MYSQL} | cut -d= -f2`

mysql -e “use mysql; UPDATE mysql.user SET max_questions=${MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR}, max_updates=${MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR}, max_connections=${MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR}, max_user_connections=${MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS} WHERE user!=’da_admin’ AND user!=’root’ AND user!=’da_roundcube’ AND user!=’da_atmail’; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;” –user=${MYSQLUSER} –password=${MYSQLPASSWORD}

echo “Limits have been set.”
exit 0;