Re: Apache: limiting the execution place

[exon <exon () home se>]

No misunderstanding from you, but sort of one for me. Sorry about that.

Still though, I can't quite see the reason for hindering other users to
see the script code. Only local users can read them in 'raw'
format. Unless ofcourse there are some copyright issues here, or there are
'hardcoded' (as hardcoded as they get in scripts) plaintext passwords to
protect, in which case the scripts are flawed anyways. Passwords should
be stored encrypted in separate files.

/Andy

PS. I was intrigued by this, so I'm currently working on a small app to
add unix type password security to linux users.
Gimme a holler if you're interested.


On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Jonas Acres wrote:

> I apologize if I misunderstood anything here...
>
> I believe the idea is to protect the Defender's raw PHP/Perl/whatever code
> from the Attacker, who also has an account on the server. If Defender's
> public_html directory is world-readable, Attacker can SSH/telnet/whatever in
> and take it.
>
> If Defender's public_html directory is only readable by her and httpd, then
> the only way to the file is through the web server.
>
> The web server won't ever send out raw code if it's set-up properly -- it'll
> parse the code, and send out the HTML output. So going through the web
> server is useless to Attacker.
>
> Jonas
>
> On 2003-06-17 02:16, "exon" <exon () home se> wrote:
>
> > I don't quite see the point, or I've misunderstood what you're asking for.
> > Do you want to block local users from seeing what global users can? What
> > hinders the local users from getting it anyway through the webserver
> > instead?
> >
> > /Andy


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