setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-13 Thread Terrence Brannon
Hi, _ Background of Problem At our [1]webhosting cooperative, each website is setup in a virtual host like this: ServerName www.livingcosmos.org ErrorLog /var/log/apache/www.livingcosmo

Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-13 Thread Simon Perreault
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 18:31, Terrence Brannon wrote: >How can we setup our virtual hosts so that each one runs as a specific >Unix user? Instead of User www-data Group www-data use User specific_user Group specific_user I don't get

Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-13 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:31 +, Terrence Brannon wrote: >At the moment, the sysadmins see no way to run mod_perl such that the >mod_perl requests can run as a specific user. Unless I can find a way >to have mod_perl processes for each virtual host run as a specific >user, we will

Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-13 Thread Geoffrey Young
>Unfortunately, we have been hit by a [2]uselib() privilege elevation >exploit. As a result, our sysadmins have decided that any CGI/mod_perl >process has to run as a specific user instead of as www-data. I'll admit to not being the best SA or security-minded guy around, so maybe this

Re: setting up virtual hosts

2005-07-13 Thread Enno
as far as I know, that uselib vulnerability has nothing to do with mod_perl. it's a kernel exploit. using a different user wont fix the problem, updating your kernel will. so why not do that? Enno On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Terrence Brannon wrote: >Unfortunately, we have been hit by a [2]uselib()

[OT] mod_perl presentation slides at the 2nd Italian Perl Workshop

2005-07-13 Thread Enrico Sorcinelli
Hi all, I just published the slides of the two mod_perl talks I gave I gave at the 2nd Italian Perl Workshop on June 2005 (http://www.perl.it/workshop) - "Building a real web application with HTML::Mason" http://www.perl.it/documenti/talks/ipw/2005/bepi/mason-eng/img0.html - "20 things you may n

Apache::DBI

2005-07-13 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
All, http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=5174 I just got and resolved this. -- END What doesn't kill us can only make us stronger. Nothing is impossible. Philip M. Gollucci ([

Apache2::Status Trouble

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Whillers
I'm having trouble getting Apache2::Status to display particular information. (following examples in "practical-mod_perl") The application menus work but "PerlRequire'd Files" and "Compiled Registry Scripts" are showing nothing -- other options appear to work fine. I've been running our scripts

Re: Apache2::Status Trouble (Resolved)

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Whillers
(be sure to run in single-process mode) On Wednesday 13 July 2005 15:47, Bill Whillers wrote: > I'm having trouble getting Apache2::Status to display particular > information. (following examples in "practical-mod_perl") > > The application menus work but "PerlRequire'd Files" and "Compiled Reg