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Old 19th December 2011
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Originally Posted by steamrent View Post
....while keeping the system secure...
You will have to define what you mean by "secure". A chrooted webserver will prevent access to the rest of your filesystems, but that alone will not prevent DOS attacks, nor will it prevent poor web application administrative decisions from permitting bad actors from having a free hand within the webserver, including reaching out from the server to whatever it is permitted to reach, such as making their own SQL calls to your back end database.

Define your requirements clearly, so that you can get reasoned advice.

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He doesn't know what SSH is...
You can instruct him, if there is any advantage to providing a shell as a service.

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