Re: Deny Access To configuration file using php scripts

David Morel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le Mardi 1 Mars 2005 18:54, raT a écrit :
> the first thing they do is a
> system ('cat /var/www/path to config file');
> inside a php script

use php safe_mode, run php scripts in suexec.

> my problem is to deny this file from being read throu the script since
> the apache deamon runs as nobody

you can have multiple virtual hosts running under their own uid/gid -see 
virtual host configuration and suexec doc for apache

> and it has to have read permision to the configuration file.
>
> my users have shell acount 

they shouldn't ! What do you expect ? Do they really have to have a shell 
account ???
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