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Date:      Sat, 9 Sep 2000 17:24:40 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Simakin Alexandr <simakin@inbox.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CGI-scripts security
Message-ID:  <20000909172440.B77593@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <E13XmXc-000Ljj-00@hearst.mail.ru>
References:  <E13XmXc-000Ljj-00@hearst.mail.ru>

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Simakin Alexandr wrote:

> CGIWrap is cool, but if you have such files:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1067 Sep  9 17:28 /etc/passwd
> you can read this file even when CGIWrap installed, 
> find users with SU rights, lunch password finder utility 
> and so on.

Have you actually LOOKED at /etc/passwd?  Go count the number of actual
passwords it contains.

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Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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