Emacs backup files in cgi-bin

[dphull () UKANS EDU (Dave Hull)]

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Initially when I tried this I thought that one of our local systems
was vulnerable. However, it turns out that I had permissions set
incorrectly on my local cgi-bin directory. By setting permissions to
700 even backup copies in the cgi-bin directory are unreadable.

However, on systems which use php this is something which should be
dealt with in the httpd.conf as php files must be set to rwxr-xr-x,
hence backup copies with a tilde appended to them are readable, at
least on my configuration they were. I have since corrected the
problem by modifying httpd.conf.

Dave Hull, Senior Information Technology Analyst
LAN Support Services, University of Kansas
gpg-> http://insipid.cc.ukans.edu/dphull/pubkey.html

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