RE: [PLUG] webhosting question again

[Thomas Thurman <thomas@thurman.org.uk>]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, epike@isinet.com wrote:
> regardless of any security i think of by way
> of permissions, I can't think of a secure way
> to protect the users files from each other.  The reason
> is if somebody writes a cgi-bin that should be
> readable and executed by apache, then that process
> will have the power to read other people web files!

cgiwrap is your friend.

see <http://www.utexas.edu/local/doc/cgiwrap/> (since the main site
appears to be down at present), or apt-get install cgiwrap in debian,
which will do the whole thing seamlessly for you.

t

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