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Subject: Re: http server for bastion host
From: Peter da Silva <peter @ baileynm . com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 06:42:10 -0600 (CST)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199802100516 . VAA06300 @ yginsburg . el . nec . com> from "Bob De Witt" at Feb 9, 98 09:16:48 pm

> > But, damn it, we've established that CERN HTTPD *is* one of those programs
> > already. What's the point in building a jail when you lock the keys inside?

> That being the case, how are the keys 'inside'?  The jailer controls the 
> whole machine from the 'root-console', yes???

Names removed to protect the guilty:

	Player 1: "I like CERN better than Apache, and it's more secure."
	Player 2: "But CERN doesn't give up root privilege reliably."
	Player 1: "That's OK, I run it chrooted."
	Player 3: "But there's ways out of a chrooted jail if you're root."
	Player 1: "So don't put buggy setuid programs in the jail."

Whereupon I point out that there's no need... CERN *is* one. "The keys are
already in the jail". Makes more sense now?



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