> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Nick Kew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Freitag, 14. November 2008 11:22 > An: webstack-discuss; [email protected] > Betreff: Introducing mod_privileges for Apache HTTPD > > I've just introduced mod_privileges to Apache HTTPD trunk. > > This is a platform-specific module for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris, > that makes the webserver privileges(5)-aware. This enables the > server to be run with enhanced security, and with different > settings per virtual host. > > The feature likely to be of most interest is that it enables > different virtual hosts to run under different Unix user and > group IDs, using the VHostUser and VHostGroup directives. > This is the capability once promised by the "perchild" MPM. > > It has one major drawback: it is not suitable for a threaded MPM. > However, it is ideally suited for use with PHP, which of course > also precludes threads. It should also be of interest to anyone > hosting other in-process scripting environments such as mod_perl, > mod_python or mod_ruby, or application modules. > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/arch/un > ix/mod_privileges.c > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/mod > /mod_privileges.xml
It currently breaks the build on Linux as mod_privileges is build by default. Regards Rüdiger
