That is possible with FreeVSD. While removing apache may be a problem, the
user could recompile their own webserver, and run it on the 8080 port, with
the redirector in place.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wim Godden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: How do they do it ?
> Well, you look at it from the perspective of protection from attacks.
> What I was inquiring about, was the easy of setup and the flexibility.
> Reading the site about Ensim's products, I read the user can actually
> decide to remove Apache and reinstall a different web server. Or simply
> recompile other options in Apache. With FreeVSD, that's impossible.
>
>
> Gregory A Lundberg wrote:
> >
> > > So what are the advantages/disadvantages of both systems ? Is FreeVSD
> > > better or is it just the fact that it's free ?
> >
> > Of the top of my head, I'd saw neither is better.
> >
> > FreeVSD's method has the advantage of not granting root privilege, but
the
> > disadvantage that it needs to modify some things (which means FreeVSD
might
> > _NOT_ modify something important). To gain full root access to your
> > machine, the FreeVSD user would need to crack root through one of the
> > applications available to them.
> >
> > Using hard partitions and allowing root access to the virtual hosts has
the
> > advantage of not requiring nearly so much modification to your system,
but
> > has the disadvantage that the user is already root, so breaking out into
the
> > larger machine is much easier.
> >
> > I imagine a fully virtual system (where the entire system, kernel and
all,
> > runs in a virtual machine) has the advantage of being even more flexible
> > (users could, for instance, choose to run FreeBSD, or even (gak) NT, on
your
> > Intel hardware. The disadvantage is this is resource-intensive if you
want
> > to host more than one or two virtual systems on your hardware.
> >
> > In none of these cases do you gain any advantage against defacements
> > attacks, many DoS attacks, or using your hardware as a launching pad to
> > attack others. The question boils down to simply being how hard it is
for
> > one user to break out and effect other users or the machine at large.
> >
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