RE: Multiple Minivends on one machine

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Wade
>
> Is there a reason NOT to put the catalog directory and the cgi
> directory for
> each virtual site using minivend under each virtual site's
> document root, or
> am I missing the Big Picture?!

Not that I am aware of. As pointed out before, the only thing you need to
get right is the file permissions. I suppose because there is only one
minivend.cfg shared by all the users, if two users needed different
settings in minivend.cfg there might be a problem. Also, users could not
restart Minivend. They could only reconfig their own catalog. There may be
some things that need a restart to reinitialize.

Christopher Thompson

>
> Wade
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Dan Busarow
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 12:29 PM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: Multiple Minivends on one machine
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
> ******
>
> On 18 Mar 1999, John Goerzen wrote:
> > I work for an ISP that would like to offer Minivend for customers that
> > wish to provide things online.  Our setup is: each customer has their
> > own Unix account, and they cannot read or write to files in other
> > accounts.  We would like to have a site-wide installation of Minivend,
> > and have only the applicable catalogs and related files stored in each
> > user's directory.  This way, upgrades would hopefully be easier,
> > resource utilization would be lower because of only one Minivend
> > daemon running, and disk space requirements would be lower.
> >
> > However, the documentation doesn't address how to set up Minivend in
> > this manner.  I'm curious as to how one would do that, and secondly,
> > what security implications there might be.  (Ie, if you have access to
> > configure one catalog, could this be exploited to access a different
> > catalog?)
>
> See the Catalog directive in minivend.cfg.  Simply specify where
> the catalogs live, ie
>
> Catalog catalog1 /home/user1/catalog1 /cgi-bin/catalog1
> Catalog catalog2 /home/user2/catalog2 /cgi-bin/catalog2
>
> You'll need to be careful with group permissions especially if the users
> are not chroot'd into their home dir.  Probably you would want
> permissions like  775 user.minivend on the catalog directories and
> 664 user.minivend on the pages, and 750 user.minivend on the user's
> home directory.  Users would *not* belong to group minivend.
>
> Dan
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