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From: sqweek <sqweek@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] RFNOMNT and/or "least privilege"
Date: Wed,  7 Jan 2009 22:15:00 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <140e7ec30901070515g3be25143p84fcc11d30f59556@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17528.1231309461@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu>

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> The web server infrastructure seems pretty focused on running
> as user "none", which makes sense as far as it goes, but I
> don't want none to be able to read the files served by the
> web servers because anybody who can log in to the machine can
> become none.

 Pegasus[1] is different here, it has namespace seperation between
virtual servers which run as arbitrary users. I can't really comment
on other differences, as I'm not very familiar with httpd. Or pegasus,
for that matter ;) I just read the intro the other day and it sounds
like something you might be interested in.

[1] http://plan9.aichi-u.ac.jp/pegasus/

-sqweek



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-04  7:08 RFNOMNT Russ Cox
2009-01-04 12:21 ` [9fans] RFNOMNT lucio
2009-01-04 17:04   ` Russ Cox
2009-01-04 18:27     ` lucio
2009-01-04 16:12 ` erik quanstrom
2009-01-05  1:01 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-05  4:18   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-01-05  4:01     ` lucio
2009-01-05  5:48   ` Russ Cox
2009-01-07  6:24 ` [9fans] RFNOMNT and/or "least privilege" Dave Eckhardt
2009-01-07 13:15   ` sqweek [this message]
2009-01-08 19:29   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2009-01-08 19:57     ` Charles Forsyth
2009-01-08 19:45       ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-01-08 20:11         ` Charles Forsyth
2009-01-08 21:29       ` Roman V. Shaposhnik

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