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Re: Virtualising a Linux system

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trevor Astrope)
Sat Oct 24 17:12:00 1998

Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 17:09:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Trevor Astrope <astrope@tabbweb.com>
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I think the Virtual-Services-HOWTO explains what you want to do.

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.
> 
> I've run against a couple of obstacles:
> 
> a) how can I stop users from seeing other users' processes with
> the 'ps aux' command? They must still be able to see their own
> processes, however.
> 
> b) how can I make it so that when a user logs in with their shell
> account and runs a command like 'uname -n' (which prints the
> current hostname), it prints their own domain name? E.g. if we're
> hosting their domain name "foo.com", I want them to see "foo.com"
> as their hostname in the shell.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> Hope somebody can give me a hand. Look forward to a response...
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon Garner.
> 
> 
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