chroot II: What's wrong?

2001-01-04 Thread R. M. Lampert
Hi! First of all: Thanks for your patience and thanks for your pointers for help. chroot() may not be the ultimate solution for running servers safely, but it seems to raise the bar for crackers quite effectively. For those who are interested: I found quite exactly what I was looking for o

putting Apache into chroot()-prison

2000-12-27 Thread R. M. Lampert
Hi, folks! Due to some very unpleasant experience in the company I'm working at (rootshell attack due to a buffer overflow intrusion in httpd...) there's a great need with us to inform thoroughly about changing to a safer environment, that is LAMP or even better NAMP (NetBSD, Apache ... there a