[sllug-members]: Poor Server Owner

Michael Heath mike.thomas.heath at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 21:39:57 MDT 2007


Yep. It might be possible to get halfway there though a LOT of creativity
and interesting hacking, but it's not going to be a complete solution.

On 9/13/07, Andrew Johnson <andrewjohnson at mail.weber.edu> wrote:
>
> > So you are saying... get the IPs for the other sites and then use
> iptables?
>
> You might be able to get creative using lesser known iptables
> capabilities such as 'mark' and 'owner' to classify traffic by uid.
> I've managed to set up a traffic shaper to put any traffic by users in
> the "slownet" group into a lower priority queue before, so I know this
> is possible.
>
> It probably doesn't help with apache though, unless you run an
> instance of apache for each user, and even then they'd have to be on
> different IP addresses or ports.  Other server processes might suffer
> the same problem.  Everything tends to run as either root or nobody.
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