Re: New Security Features, Please Comment

Alan Cox
2008-12-03T23:08:27Z

> The children are pre-forked, so the overhead is in the setup... then
> when the app recieves a request, it sets the child's uid to the uid of
> the website, and then passes the request to the child, which, now, the
> child is running as the website owner.

But the child process may already have been trojanned by a previous user
so it gains you nothing.

> It is more secure then just doing nothing.

I'm not convinced. Not remotely.