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Re: Virtualising a Linux system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Sat Oct 24 08:59:38 1998
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 07:46:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
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On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Simon Garner wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I would be indebted if someone could help me with the following
>problem.
>
>I'm trying to set up a "virtual" server environment, for hosting
>web-sites. Each user gets their own IP, shell account, Apache,
>and so on.
>
from what you want to do, it might seem as if you need to have several
machines. as soon as your users have a shell account on the system
they'll see around the virtual nature of the host, as seen from the
outside.
>c) how can I limit "su" access to a certain group? Obviously I can
>do it with file permissions but that's easy to get around. I've seen
>a much better way on another system, where executing "su" as
>anyone outside the "admin" group gives a message "you must be
>in the admin group to use su". Any ideas how it's done?
'sudo' might be want you want here, rather than su.
dave
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