Re: virtual server - security

[James Walden <jwalden () eecs utoledo edu>]

Along the same lines as the suggestion to use VMware, have you thought 
about User Mode Linux?  User Mode Linux lets you run virtual Linux 
machines on your existing Linux system.  If you have enough memory, you 
could give each of your user groups their own virtual Linux machine with 
its own filesystem and virtual hardware, offering much greater isolation 
than chroot.  Each could also run their own version of 
Apache/mod_perl/PHP, fulfilling potentially different security 
requirements.  Compromise of one virtual machine wouldn't compromise the 
others or the real box that they're running on.


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James Walden, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of EECS
The University of Toledo @ LCCC
http://www.eecs.utoledo.edu/~jwalden/
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