Re: securing php

["Larry W. Cashdollar" <lwc () vapid ath cx>]

Justin,

I recommend for server security and stability sake in a production
environment, to run software on the platform it was developed on.  Atleast
in this case.  So you want to run apache? run it on a *nix variant.  I
have never run IIS so I can't compare it to Windows native http server.

At least what I have seen with software that has been ported from Windows
to UNIX (Solaris in this case) is the differences in security models tend
to fall through the cracks.  I suspect this case might be the same
the other way around.  The nativly written stuff has had longer to bake
etc...

-- Larry C$

"Justin Shin" <zorkshin () tampabay rr com> wrote:

> Hi all --
>
> I have a friend that owns a web hosting company and recently he asked me to
> check up on his security ... I found that PHP scripts could access,
> modify, etc. anything on the drive. Of course, this is because PHP was
> invoked by apache, which is being run as a root user (Administrator, he
> runs apache on win2k3 for some odd reason) but I do not know the remedy.
> How could he set up his apache/PHP so that only the users of his web
> hosting service could "do stuff" to their own web directories. I know I
> am not explaining this well, but I think you get the picture :) I also
> know there is a simple solution to this, I googled it though and I
> couldn't find it.

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