On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:18:23PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
> ..
> > Having seen the install size of RH8 and RH9 personally, I'd recommend a
> > distro that can install a smaller amount of required binaries. Up for
> > the dream team to decide if advance package management software (like
> > RPM or DPKG) would be needed, or if they'd go towards source distros
> > like Gentoo.
> 
> VectorLinux?
> then use a chrooted mini_httpd (from Jef Poskanzer) as the web server.

Would there be a great significance in security if an HTTP server would
run in a chroot() environment? I think this just adds administration
woes with not much security gains (although for this occasion, we need
to muster all the security options we can muster from the kernel
up to userland software) :-)


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