Re: How secure is PHP ?

["Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com>]

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Yo Matt!

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Matt wrote:

> There is actually a very easy way around this.  If you are running an
> LDAP or AD environment, you can use the LDAP to authenticate the
> users, then once the user is authenticated, take the username and
> store that into a variable which you can then use to chown and chgrp
> the resulting files for that user after they are written.

You do not need LDAP or AD for this.  Apache can happyly validate
against the local /etc/password or an htpasswd file.  Then use suexec to
get the perms right.  All the config you need for this will fit nicely
in your httpd.conf.

OTOH, you better have a better than average Apache Admin to noodle this
out.

RGDS
GARY
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