Adam Chlipala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
>> Adam Chlipala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't think its going to be possible to have resonable apache
>>>> performance and still be able to have apache acquire tickets based
>>>> on host headers for seperate sites.
>>>>
>>> I suspect it wouldn't be much of a problem to suexec without picking
>>> up AFS tickets.  My guess is that most dynamic content programs
>>> wouldn't try to write to home directories, and database access would
>>> work fine. For the (I hope) relatively few cases where this wouldn't
>>> work, could we just ask members to run k5start instances?
>>>
>>
>> You mean share AFS read access?  Sounds good to me, but then any user
>> could potentially read any other users database passwords, but I
>> don't see a good, easy way around that.
>>
> No, I mean start with no AFS rights beyond what system:anyuser gets.

Well, apache is already running as a PTS user to write log files and 
such, if people wish to restrict their backend sites more than 
system:anyuser they certainly can.  (When we say world readable with 
AFS, we really mean the entire world.)

> No databases passwords are involved with Postgres, since ident
> authentication is completely reliable on a network we control.

Ah, right.  Okay.

> world of MySQL would certainly be murkier.

Yeah, the mysql stuff is what worried me as well.

Anyone know of any popular apps that only work with MySQL?

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