Re: Migrate from WebTen to iTools?

[Robert Brandtjen <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:03 am, you wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by "jail" processes.  Tenon's software takes
> special care to make sure that services such as web (Apache) and mail
> (Sendmail) run as users other than root to avoid serious breaches in
> security even if a hacker compromises either service.

Thats not the same thing - Jail uses a "chroot" config that, in Httpd, for 
instance, allows the running of cgi's under apache.apache, rather then 
user.user or worse still, root.root.

see here:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap21sec167.html

In this scenario, httpd cannot even execute a script/binary outside a defined 
(hard coded during compiling) directory path, as well.
-- 
 Robert Brandtjen
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