Re: unix permissions for 4.0

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2000


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 29603
interpreted = N
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 . 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 Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: unix permissions for 4.0 (Simon Buchanan 2000)
  2. Re: unix permissions for 4.0 (jpeacock@univpress.com 2000)
  3. unix permissions for 4.0 (Grant Hulbert 2000)
>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 Simon Buchanan

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