Re: [Security-Discuss] Possible PHP hole in Perl?

Henrik Ingo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.security.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 03:48, Matt Parker wrote:
> Say for example your set-up was working perfectly, but then a new
> exploit was found and before you had time to patch, someone got the raw
> script file. The damage is twice as bad if usernames/passwords are in
> there.
>
> I don't know what alternative there is in PHP, but in Java you can put
> that stuff in a config file that is not available in the normal download
> path and it is encrypted in there as well.

This is possible in PHP as well. The problem is, people will just put the 
username and password in the script anyway.

henrik
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