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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Enrico Weigelt <we...@metux.de> on 2004/12/13 07:04:25 UTC

Re: MPM with DYNAMICAL user switching?

* Dmitry Koteroff <dm...@koteroff.ru> wrote:

Hi,

> Perchild  MPM  allows  to  run  different  vhost  requests  under
> different user accounts. But:
no, it doesn't.
but metuxmpm does: 
    
    http://nibiru.borg.metux.de:7000/wiki.mpm/

<snip>
> 1. It does not support Windows at all.
windows does not support passing sockets between processes. 
so without this, you can just use a proxy sitting in front of 
multiple severs.

<snip>
> 2. It  does  not  support  child processes dynamic creation. For
>    example,  if  we  have  1000 vhosts under 1000 users, this MPM
>    tries  to  create 1000 apache children first. Of course, it is
>    very hard to do; creation on demand and killing after inactive
>    timeout is more preferably.
we're working on that.
contributions are always welcomed.


cu
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Re: MPM with DYNAMICAL user switching?

Posted by Enrico Weigelt <we...@metux.de>.
* Enrico Weigelt <we...@metux.de> wrote:
> * Dmitry Koteroff <dm...@koteroff.ru> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Perchild  MPM  allows  to  run  different  vhost  requests  under
> > different user accounts. But:
> no, it doesn't.

I have to correct myself: 

It does, but its fundamentally insecure --> nearly unusable.


cu
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