It's not as easy as that unless there is something I'm unfamiliar with. There are scripts that will help chroot but it isn't just making an entry in httpd.conf. It does keep everyone totally separate though. As a shell user your / is actually some subfolder on the server. Your folders under / are yours and only yours. The sys admin can give or take away ls from your bin and so on.
Larry S. Brown Dimension Networks, Inc. (727) 723-8388 -----Original Message----- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:39 PM To: Larry Brown; MySQL List Subject: Re: Hiding the password I think we must be at cross-purposes. I thought you were talking about individual <VirtualHost></VirtualHost> sections. That would have been a wonderful thing. Feasible too, perhaps. The Apache parent ("root"), could prefork its children, one for each <VirtualHost></VirtualHost> running as its own user (to which all requests for that vhost are handled). It would certainly take care of a whole lot of security issues. - Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:07 PM Subject: RE: Hiding the password > Check out the explination of chroot from the following url.. > > http://www.tcu-inc.com/Articles/23/chroot.html > > This is an article about doing more than an apache solution but it > explains chroot. This is the best model I know of. I read that it is being > used less often than in the past so there may be some other methods > that are more prevalent now but this is one definite working solution. > > Larry S. Brown > Dimension Networks, Inc. > (727) 723-8388 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:48 PM > To: William R. Mussatto; Octavian Rasnita > Cc: Larry Brown; MySQL List > Subject: Re: Hiding the password > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William R. Mussatto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Octavian Rasnita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Larry Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MySQL List" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 7:07 PM > Subject: Re: Hiding the password > > > > Its possible to configure a single virtual host to run as a > > different user and group. > > Oh?? This is entirely new to me. :) Please, enlighten me. > > - Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
