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Date:      Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:08:23 +0800
From:      Daniel <jahilliya@gmail.com>
To:        Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to tell what ran what
Message-ID:  <ba5e78ea0602151808x1c6a719epbfbe5706a6fabd3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43F3CBF8.2070703@scls.lib.wi.us>
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On 2/16/06, Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> wrote:
> Glenn McCalley wrote:
>
> > Thanks Brian, that's already tonights project to run through those logs=
 and
> > see if anything jumps out there.  What I think he might be doing is eit=
her
> > POSTing the parameters (which won't show up) or he's loaded a file of e=
mail
> > addresses and just triggers the mailer with a simple cgi request.  Eith=
er
> > way he's got to be calling sendmail or mail to get it out the door I
> > believe.
>
> Actually, they can use a number of other ways to create the outbound
> SMTP connections. Perl, for instance, offers the Net::SMTP module
> (and numerous others that'd do the trick). They don't need to call
> on binaries outside of their own cgi-bin or leave any tracks for you
> other than a web access log entry.
>
> You might consider putting your customers in jails with unique IP
> numbers as a way to better strain out whose CGI is the source of
> what packets on your network. Probably not a trivial change to your
> working environment, but maybe worth it in the long run.
>
You might want to consider setting up named virtualhosts with suexec
so each host runs as it's own user.



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