Re: securing sensitive information in CGI scripts

2001-09-05 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett W. McCoy) wrote: > You've killed any security also if you don't remove backup files from your > web space. emacs, for instance, creates files appended with ~, and people > forget to delete them (or create a cron job that does it). Big h

Re: securing sensitive information in CGI scripts

2001-09-04 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Mel Matsuoka wrote: > Having password information embedded in a publicly accessible document such > as a CGI script is playing with fire, as far as I'm concerned. There may be > a time when you least expect it when someone (or you) screws up the > webserver config, and acciden