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) :-) -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
