On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> We are currently discussing the possibilities on how to configure our
> system for the following scenarios:
>
> We have multiple XWiki instances for several users. Since the users want
> to have full admin rights we cannot use the xwiki farm. For security
> reasons we are deploying each instance into a virtual machine (KVM) with
> its own Tomcat and Database.
>
> Using this kind of setup seems to be most secure and flexible in terms of
> miss configured tomcat installations, SQL-injections and file-system (on
> purpose or by mistake) access though scripting. The obvious down side is
> the huge overhead which comes with the virtualization.
>
> So I was wondering what kind of setups you are using. Can I deploy the
> application into some kind of tomcat-chroot-environment? What kind of
> database setup is possible? Is it possible to restrict access to a certain
> database on an application bases (much like you can restrict access based
> on the connecting ip-address). The Database has the be PostgreSQL.
>
> I appreciate all kind of inputs. Cheers,
> Stephanie.
>
>
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Presuming you are running on Linux, you might look at
http://linux-vserver.org for reducing the overhead of a KVM environment and
just running on database instance with multiple
databases/namespaces/tablespaces (sorry not a postgres user so might have
the wrong term) with each xwiki "admin" owning a
database/namespace/tablespace.

You could also look at opensolaris/illumos/bsd containers for doing a very
similar job without the hypervisor overhead.
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