Re: Is determining the virtual hostname for a process possible?
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com)
6 Jun 1996 03:20:08 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960604212038.8443K-100000@tsb.weschke.com>
By author: "B.J. Weschke" <beej@inet-images.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> Clients should realize this when they pay a virtual domain price ver=
sus=20
> their own machine price. What you want to do is possible, but it woul=
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> take a good amount of hacking to the current in.telnetd, login, and=20
> shadow suite system. The gist of it would be that each domain would u=
se a=20
> different passwd and group file, but the problem is while you would b=
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> able to duplicate logical names this way, uid's and gid's could not b=
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> duplicated.=20
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Hack in.telnetd, then you can do the rest with chroot(). As you say,
though, uid/gid's must not be duplicated.
-hpa
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