Found this... I like the 2nd idea.. maybe put it in for 1.1?
<Aram>
In comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix, jadour01@homer.louisville.edu
(Jason A. Dour) wrote:
>Here's a few ideas I've been pondering regarding enhancing Apache. I
>currently am running 0.8.14, and have already coded the first of my
>ideas...
>1. Finer control over Includes (i.e. individual switches for ALL,
> CGI, and EXEC). I've patched in a new OPTION, ExecCGI that allows
> execution includes...but only of "cgi" references. To do this
> however, the OPTIONS space must be increased from 8 bits. To
> do this in my patch, I've expanded the OPTIONS from int's to long
> int's. I've been told (a while back) by the Apache boys that
> increasing the option space was eventually going to come to pass
> but they weren't sure when. It's been two or three releases
> since then, and still I'm stuck with eight bits. 8( This
> would be a WONDERFUL feature... This one I have already coded,
> but would like to see it included.
>2. Putting an option in place that would allow CGI processes to
> be set to the UID of the owner of the file. This would allow
> for open CGI areas, but would keep them from deleting data,
> programs, etc that do not belong to them. This would be quite
> a nice *internal* feature as opposed to some external program
> such as the ones floating around on the net currently. I have
> yet to delve into the code to worry about this one...
>Jason
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<Aram>
In comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix, jadour01@homer.louisville.edu
(Jason A. Dour) wrote:
>Here's a few ideas I've been pondering regarding enhancing Apache. I
>currently am running 0.8.14, and have already coded the first of my
>ideas...
>1. Finer control over Includes (i.e. individual switches for ALL,
> CGI, and EXEC). I've patched in a new OPTION, ExecCGI that allows
> execution includes...but only of "cgi" references. To do this
> however, the OPTIONS space must be increased from 8 bits. To
> do this in my patch, I've expanded the OPTIONS from int's to long
> int's. I've been told (a while back) by the Apache boys that
> increasing the option space was eventually going to come to pass
> but they weren't sure when. It's been two or three releases
> since then, and still I'm stuck with eight bits. 8( This
> would be a WONDERFUL feature... This one I have already coded,
> but would like to see it included.
>2. Putting an option in place that would allow CGI processes to
> be set to the UID of the owner of the file. This would allow
> for open CGI areas, but would keep them from deleting data,
> programs, etc that do not belong to them. This would be quite
> a nice *internal* feature as opposed to some external program
> such as the ones floating around on the net currently. I have
> yet to delve into the code to worry about this one...
>Jason
>+- Jason A. Dour ----------------------------------- Dark Father Amadeus -+
>|----------- jadour01@[homer|ftp|ulkyvx|ulkyvm].louisville.edu -----------|
>|--------- Home Page : http://www.louisville.edu/~jadour01/ ----------|
>+--------- PJ Harvey : http://www.louisville.edu/~jadour01/pjh/ ----------+
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Aram W. Mirzadeh, MIS Manager, Qosina Corporation
http://www.qosina.com/~awm/, awm@qosina.com
Apache httpd server team http://www.apache.org