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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:30:36 +0100
From:      Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
To:        Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Suexec with Apache 1.3.29
Message-ID:  <20040429143036.GC21785@lb.tenfour>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20040429101444.0e68a6a0@pop.face2interface.com>
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* Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> [0423 15:23]:
> 
> With suexec running, a cgi gets set to 744 or 700 instead of 755; a data 
> file e.g. log or count file gets 644 or 600 instead of 666. It's amazing to 
> me that more vandalism and cross site scripting doesn't occur given the 
> servers that still don't run suexec, or the users that aren't hip to using 
> it properly for setting permissions when the server does support it.

suexec is a pig to configure, complex and poorly documented. I think that's 
at least partly why the world runs away from CGI and towards stuff like
JSP/PHP....


-- 
Reality is for people who lack imagination.
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