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From: Joao Schim <j.schim@netmaniacs.nl>
To: "Bostjan Skufca (at) domenca.com" <bostjan.skufca@domenca.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: chroot of apache's cgi execution
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:45:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119104503.68480edc.j.schim@netmaniacs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401190309.33032.bostjan.skufca@domenca.com>


No, of course it doesn't,

We don't want to run all httpd children as root do we ?
Then the safety level gained with chroot() is lost by the
fact you run as root. chroot() is easily broken by root 
anyway, so you end up with a really false sense of security.

Regards,

Joao

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:09:33 +0100
"Bostjan Skufca (at) domenca.com" <bostjan.skufca@domenca.com> wrote:

> it doesn't fit per-vhost requirement
> 
> On Saturday 17 of January 2004 13:33, Joao Schim wrote:
> > Maybe this can help you ?
> >
> > http://www.devet.org/apache/chroot/
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Joao Schim
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:45:24 +0100
> >
> > "Bostjan Skufca (at) domenca.com" <bostjan.skufca@domenca.com> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > can anybody give me some hint about chrooting execution of cgi script
> > > invoked through apache?
> > > I would like to achieve this on per-virtual-host basis so every
> > > virtual host would have different root dir to which it would chroot
> > > execution of it's cgi scripts. If the price is perl installation in
> > > every chroot jail so be it.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Bostjan Skufca
> > >
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> -- 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bostjan Skufca
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> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-19  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-17  3:45 chroot of apache's cgi execution Bostjan Skufca (at) domenca.com
2004-01-17  4:27 ` asterr
2004-01-19  2:11   ` Bostjan Skufca (at) domenca.com
2004-01-17 12:33 ` Joao Schim
2004-01-19  2:09   ` Bostjan Skufca (at) domenca.com
2004-01-19  9:45     ` Joao Schim [this message]
2004-01-19 14:02       ` Bostjan Skufca (at) domenca.com
2004-01-20  5:53         ` Glynn Clements

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