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> Regarding the multi-level idea, it would be a second phase. I would  
> like to be able to contain effectively a possible root escalation  
> from a poorly written CGI or PHP script. I know, it would be anyway  
> extremely hard. But if we could launch the web server process with  
> an additional lower security level inherited by all of its child  
> processes, we could prevent damage to the system even by a child  
> processes that escalated to root.

And I answer myself :) (forgot to add this)

Another desired functionality involves making sure that code injected  
into a poorly written PHP or CGI module cannot (for example)  
establish unauthorized network connections, listen(), etc. The  
FreeBSD ipfw has a lot of potential, but, unfortunately, ftp  
complicates the implementation of a simple uid-based limitation.  
Security levels would help here as well.





Borja.