I don't run my apache in a chroot.
On 9/8/05, L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:03 PM 9/7/2005 +1000, you wrote:
Hello,
I want to put a cgi-script on my OpenBSD server for shell account
creation. Basically that allows users to sign up accounts via the web.
I however know very
At 10:03 PM 9/7/2005 +1000, you wrote:
Hello,
I want to put a cgi-script on my OpenBSD server for shell account
creation. Basically that allows users to sign up accounts via the web.
I however know very little about cgi, I could probably write one if I
looked into it but I thought I would ask
There's always a way. You could put the info somewhere within the chroot
and have a cron job check it every minute and add the user. Just one
idea, and it has drawbacks in a couple of areas...
L. V. Lammert wrote:
At 10:03 PM 9/7/2005 +1000, you wrote:
Hello,
I want to put a cgi-script on
[snip cut whack]
I want to put a cgi-script on my OpenBSD server for shell account
creation. Basically that allows users to sign up accounts via the web.
[chainsaw noises cut cut]
You can't add a user via cgi with a normal OBSD installation, since Apache
is running chroot'd.
Not directly no,
At 08:16 AM 9/7/2005 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
There's always a way. You could put the info somewhere within the chroot
and have a cron job check it every minute and add the user. Just one idea,
and it has drawbacks in a couple of areas...
There are always ways, .. but I would not
--On 07 September 2005 10:40 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
There are always ways, .. but I would not consider recommending such
sophisticated solutions for the basic user level of this poster.
If it's necessary to ask questions of this nature, perhaps running a
server automatically handing out
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Of
Stuart Henderson
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 12:13 PM
To: Misc OpenBSD
Subject: Re: Shell account cgi script
--On 07 September 2005 10:40 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
There are always ways
On 9/7/05, Will H. Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps the OpenBSD community can at least come up with some general
hints for people who wish to use OpenBSD for hosting shell accounts.
IMHO a good method of this is by setting up a chroot for user shells,
whereby a user can log in and at
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:37:45 -0400 Mike Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 9/7/05, Will H. Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps the OpenBSD community can at least come up with some general
hints for people who wish to use OpenBSD for hosting shell accounts.
IMHO a good method of
On 9/7/05, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:37:45 -0400 Mike Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If someone is wanting to give people shell accounts, then they
generally want people to be able to access more than just the shell
itself. The whole point is to let them use the
Mike Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the contrary, they can do anything that the administrator makes it
possible for them to do. Many of the web hosting accounts I've signed
up for came with a jailed shell that I could use to work with the
files on the server but nothing more.
And web
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Of
Mike Hernandez
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 2:47 PM
To: Adam; misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Shell account cgi script
On 9/7/05, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:37:45
On 9/7/05, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And web hosting is not shell hosting is it? What does work with
mean anyways? You need all the binaries to work with, and they
need all their libs to function. Sure, you could copy all the binaries
and libraries of the entire OS into the chroot, but
Mike Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Work with means using various programs like vim or emacs or sed, etc
to manipulate the files. And yes you need the binaries and their
associated libraries for each program you want a jailed user to be
able to run. You don't need an entire OS made
On 9/7/05, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a useful idea in some scenarios, in others it's not.
Right, and providing shell accounts is in the not category.
Adam
OK I have to concede here. I didn't realize how powerful user classes
were. After doing some research I see that all of
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