Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-16 Thread Enno
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Terrence Brannon wrote: > Enno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > as far as I know, that uselib vulnerability has nothing to do with > > mod_perl. it's a kernel exploit. using a different user wont fix the > > problem, updating your kernel will. so why not do that? > > I wish I

Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-14 Thread Terrence Brannon
Enno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > as far as I know, that uselib vulnerability has nothing to do with > mod_perl. it's a kernel exploit. using a different user wont fix the > problem, updating your kernel will. so why not do that? I wish I could give you a link, but I cant find it. However, the k

Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-14 Thread Terrence Brannon
Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Unfortunately, we have been hit by a [2]uselib() privilege elevation >>exploit. As a result, our sysadmins have decided that any CGI/mod_perl >>process has to run as a specific user instead of as www-data. > > I'll admit to not being the bes

Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-13 Thread Enno
as far as I know, that uselib vulnerability has nothing to do with mod_perl. it's a kernel exploit. using a different user wont fix the problem, updating your kernel will. so why not do that? Enno On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Terrence Brannon wrote: >Unfortunately, we have been hit by a [2]uselib()

Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-13 Thread Geoffrey Young
>Unfortunately, we have been hit by a [2]uselib() privilege elevation >exploit. As a result, our sysadmins have decided that any CGI/mod_perl >process has to run as a specific user instead of as www-data. I'll admit to not being the best SA or security-minded guy around, so maybe this

Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-13 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:31 +, Terrence Brannon wrote: >At the moment, the sysadmins see no way to run mod_perl such that the >mod_perl requests can run as a specific user. Unless I can find a way >to have mod_perl processes for each virtual host run as a specific >user, we will

Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-13 Thread Simon Perreault
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 18:31, Terrence Brannon wrote: >How can we setup our virtual hosts so that each one runs as a specific >Unix user? Instead of User www-data Group www-data use User specific_user Group specific_user I don't get

setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-13 Thread Terrence Brannon
Hi, _ Background of Problem At our [1]webhosting cooperative, each website is setup in a virtual host like this: ServerName www.livingcosmos.org ErrorLog /var/log/apache/www.livingcosmo