FreeVSD - Virtual Server Daemon

[Pat Padgett]

At 12:32 PM 1/14/00 -0600, you wrote:
>As Pat Padgett noted: the owner of the virtual domain has root privileges.
>Is this really the same as what Apache or Zope allow?   Don't they just
>allow privileges to a HTML directory for the pages in the domain and
>pointers to that directory when an IP request comes in?

Like I said, don't confuse FreeVSD with a webserver.  FreeVSD is a virtual 
server daemon that will allow you to create virtual linux servers.  To host 
web sites on a virtual server you would still need to install a webserver 
(ie apache).

You may be asking yourself, what is a "virtual linux server" and what could 
I do with it? To answer this let me illustrate one use for it.  Say you are 
web hosting provider and wish to allow users to have administrative 
accounts for their web sites so they may configure their web server 
differently (add support for php or mod_ssl for instance).  It is necessary 
for you to have root privileges to compile and install these apache 
modules.  The FreeVSD software will allow you to setup a "sandbox" where 
the user has root privileges and access to the / (root) filesystem.  The 
root filesystem is actually mapped to the users home directory (via hard 
links) and anything that they install isn't actually installed to 
/usr/local/apache/libexec, but /home/user/usr/local/apache/libexec, though 
existing binaries like /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd are just hard links.

I hope this helps explain what you can do with this software.

Check out their web page: http://www.freevsd.org/ as it can answer many of 
your questions.
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