[geeks] Compilers - safe on servers?

[RichT]

Well as you are running Solaris 10, you could allways make a full root zone
and use that for building your apps,
(or some such iteration of using zones ;)



On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am in the process of evaluating Solaris 10 as a feasible server OS for
> our new production machine. Howerver, I've hit on a snag.
>
> I can get SAMP, Ruby, gem and Rails via Coolstack and that all works
> swimmingly.
>
> My problem is 'Passenger' (which is a Ruby Gem for using Rails apps through
> Apache2) requires gcc to compile a native portion of the gem. gcc isn't, of
> course, included on Solaris 10, you have to install Sun's dev tools (Sun
> Studio 11, right?)
>
> The problem with *that* is I was always lead to believe this was a bad idea
> on production servers because in the even of a security breach the gcc
> compiler could be used to compile malicious code.
>
> Any pointers? I had to use similar techniques to get stuff to work when I
> was assessing Ububtu server too. If there is a securiy risk it's not going
> to easy my mind any...
>
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