Re: unix permissions for 4.0
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2000
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = >I believe I sent a long e-mail sometime last year with my suggestions for a>secure multiuser WebCatalog (I'll see if I still have it). I >suggested that you>should investigate splitting the write daemons from read daemons, >then have them>spawn on different schedules. The read only daemon would run as nobody and>would hand off any write requests (via IPC or named pipes) to a write daemon>which would be virtual host specific. This would allow someone to >securely host>many users, allow the files to be owned by each virtual site user. You would>keep a pool of read daemons, which would be shared across all sites, and then>spawn a write daemon for append/replace/writefile.This is a top idea... would make things much easier to deal with.-- Simon Buchanan - Technical Design and Administration--------------- New Media Communications ---------------mailto:simon@newmediacom.net http://www.newmediacom.net------------ By the way, what does BTW mean? -----------#############################################################This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>I believe I sent a long e-mail sometime last year with my suggestions for a>secure multiuser WebCatalog (I'll see if I still have it). I >suggested that you>should investigate splitting the write daemons from read daemons, >then have them>spawn on different schedules. The read only daemon would run as nobody and>would hand off any write requests (via IPC or named pipes) to a write daemon>which would be virtual host specific. This would allow someone to >securely host>many users, allow the files to be owned by each virtual site user. You would>keep a pool of read daemons, which would be shared across all sites, and then>spawn a write daemon for append/replace/writefile.This is a top idea... would make things much easier to deal with.-- Simon Buchanan - Technical Design and Administration--------------- New Media Communications ---------------mailto:simon@newmediacom.net http://www.newmediacom.net------------ By the way, what does BTW mean? -----------#############################################################This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to Send administrative queries to
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