RE: apache + .htpasswd - bypass pwd check

["Golden_Eternity" <bhodi_jabir () yahoo com>]

You need to turn off FollowSymLinks in the */public_html/ directories.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hallberg Tom [mailto:tom.hallberg () rfv sfa se]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:45 AM
> To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
> Cc: vuln-dev () security-focus com
> Subject: apache + .htpasswd - bypass pwd check
>
>
> Hi
>
> yesterday I managed to bypass the pwd check when using .htpasswd. 
> The problem
> now is that Im not sure how to secure it.
>
> Okej let say that user ivan have protected his 
> /home/ivan/public_html/topsecret
> directory. And on the samer server we have the user johan, from 
> his public_html
> directory we make an symlink ln -s /home/ivan/public_html/topsecret test
> okej so then johan tries http://www.hostname.whatever/~johan/test
> he will end up in ivan' s  topsecret directory..
>
> So what have I missed in my httpd.conf or something else? :)
>
> thanx
> /Tom