Re: chroot of apache's cgi execution

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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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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> 
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