Chroot jail or not

[Stewart Stremler]

begin  quoting Karl Cunningham as of Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 07:37:21AM -0800:
[snip]
> I guess my question is: given the maturity of apache v2 and squirrelmail
> and the potential of them being compromised, is it worth the trouble?  Any
> advice is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.

If you have the disk space, look into user-mode linux.  Instead of
trying to figure out what library dependencies are (getting more and
more annoying in Linux), you just make a minimal distribution.

A chroot jail isn't proof against escape.

-Stewart "Nearly every application should run in a jail of some sort" Stremler