RE: [PHP-INST] Blatant PHP security issues!!!!

2001-02-22 Thread Grimes, Dean
>For instance, PHP scripts have to be world readable. Which >means that anyone who hard coded in a username and password to their mysql >database are putting their database at risk. Actually, is possible to restrict permissions. I have my permissions on some PHP scripts set to 700,750, 600 and 6

Re: [PHP-INST] Blatant PHP security issues!!!!

2001-02-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
> I have looked around the web and have yet to find a good tutorial on how to > enable SuEXEC to work with PHP. > Use the CGI version. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org Cl

Re: [PHP-INST] Blatant PHP security issues!!!!

2001-02-21 Thread Bradley Miller
I personally don't see this as a major problem, ASP and Cold Fusion do things the same way. If you work the security end of things correctly, people shouldn't be able to see your config file that you can include from somewhere else . . . that people can't see or have a mimetype returned properly.