From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 18 4:40: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBCD37B403; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 04:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IBdsp63374; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:39:54 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:39:54 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: ports@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <20011018153954.B63215@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20011018145428.B62250@nagual.pp.ru> <27516.1003402941@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <27516.1003402941@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 13:02:21 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > It just seems weird to me that you haven't just left this area up to > things like the Apache SuExec project etc. CGI scripts are complex > beasts, and I wonder how much real security you gain with this > simplistic "solution". I don't attempt to deal with this area or attempt to solve it this way. I issue just _warning_ saying that webmasters which use non-wrapped cgi-bin writes shoud convert their directories to group www after Apache change. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message