On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Rhodri James
<rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk>wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:00:44 -0000, Victor Subervi <
> victorsube...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  6) you don't indicate which user is executing this script (only root can
>>> write to it)
>>>
>>>  Help me on this. All scripts are owned by root. Is it not root that is
>> executing the script?
>>
>
> Not unless your server setup is very, very stupid.  CGI scripts normally
> run as a user with *very* limited permissions to limit (amongst other
> things) the damage ineptly written scripts can do.
>

Thanks. I'll change it.
V

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