On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:28:50PM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
> > As a matter of interest, is it possible - without virtualisation -
> > to restrict access through apache/httpd to a given partition?
>> man chroot.
A chroot gives you absolutely no such protection. There is nothing to
prevent the root user within a chroot accessing a disk-device.
It's running httpd as a non-root user that gives you any protection in
this regard.
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