Re: apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:30:23PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Now that apache has FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch options, > there's still some security issue. For example, someone cp /etc/passwd > to his home directory(/home/foo/passwd), create a symbolic link from > /home/foo/passwd t

Re: apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-25 Thread nate
nate said: > IMO ldap is more secure then NIS/NIS+ because it does not depend > upon RPC services(which historically have many security problems). one more thing to mention in regards to LDAP. With PAM/NSS LDAP you can configure your directory server to require authentication for queries, so a

Re: apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-25 Thread nate
Patrick Hsieh said: > Hello list, > > Now that apache has FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch options, > there's still some security issue. For example, someone cp /etc/passwd to > his home directory(/home/foo/passwd), create a symbolic link from > /home/foo/passwd to /var/www/hidden_dir/passw