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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2001 12:08:31 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>
Cc:        ck@cksoft.de, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: login.conf & FreeBSD 4.4
Message-ID:  <20011002120831.A704@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <200110020907.f9297d695258@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:07:39AM -0500
References:  <004701c14b0c$ce44f140$45e03ac3_skif.net@ns.sol.net> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110020953290.6866-100000_localhost.cksoft.de@ns.sol.net> <200110020907.f9297d695258@sheol.localdomain>

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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:07:39AM -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110020953290.6866-100000_localhost.cksoft.de@ns.sol.net>,
> 	ck@cksoft.de writes:
> > 
> > If you are talking about cgi scripts run by apache you might want to
> > patch suexec to do this. There is nothgin in apache that would normally
> > set the requested privilidges.
> > 
> > we added following to apache-x-x-x/src/support/suexec.c to actually
> > enforce setting of resource limits. There is nothing in apache that would
> > normally set these up for you.
> >  
> > 	[SNIP]
> 
> Reading between the lines, are you saying that any app "not from FreeBSD"
> running on FreeBSD isn't likely to be accounted for because they pro'lly
> don't set up limiting resources (by way of the C function you hacked in)?

Exactly.  It has to call setusercontext(3) or some other of the functions
listed in the setclasscontext(3) manual page.

G'luck,
Peter

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