Jeff Trawick wrote: > Nick Kew wrote: >> As you may know, I've recently written a module mod_privileges >> that makes Apache HTTPD privileges(5)-aware, and provides a >> solution for the long-standing problem of running different >> virtual hosts under different Unix users/groups. >> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.3/mod/mod_privileges.html >> >> mod_privileges works only with development versions of Apache. >> I'm proposing a backport to make it work with the release >> version 2.2, and include it as standard in Sun's webstack. >> I attach a draft: comments welcome. > > BTW, how big a patch is needed to Apache 2.2?
It's small and straightforward enough, having figured out the sequencing while working on trunk through mod_unixd and the drop_privileges hook. All the non-trivial work is essentially done in having figured that lot out. -- Nick Kew
