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Re: Re: Funny article
From: Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:08:13 -0600
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:41, Volker Tanger wrote:
Ideally the Apache exe should be running as an unpriviledged user. but then, ideally the IIS server should be running as an unpriviledged user too....Well, running a kernel task is a bit difficult to do unprivileged... *SCNR*
I don't understand this comment at all. Ideally IIS should be running as an unpriviledged user, like in the good ole IIS 3 days. Back then the service was running under a user account so even if the IIS service got hijacked through a BO, you still had to hack your way to privileges. No immediate SYSTEM there. The reason IIS4+ runs as SYSTEM appears to be to gain performance. I guess running IIS as a kernel module and having less context switches does do well for performance (like an Apache LKM), but unfortunately not for security. What specific kernel task were you referring to? Regards, Frank
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