Re: Multiple Minivends on one machine

[cfm@maine.com]

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> Hello,


You could do that.  Suppose minivend lives in /var/mvend3.11, /var/mvend3.12
and the user pages live in /var/mv/<username>.  Each user with a minivend
catalog would need to be in at least a common group or minivend would
need to be in their group.  In practice you will want to be quite
clear about what "upgrade" means and who does the work.
If I had a customer that wanted to run minivend himself I'd give
him his own process and buy more ram.

cfm



> 
> 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?)
> 
> Thanks,
> John Goerzen
> 
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