On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Dave Eckhardt <davide...@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
