Re: php security on shared hosts
| From: | raditha dissanayake | Date: | Sun, 26 Sep 2004 08:16:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php security on shared hosts | ||
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Pablo Gosse wrote:
Hi folks. I recently set up hosting for my site and have noticed something which is making me nervous. If you are really nervous you cannot use shared hosting. Simple as that. Even if other users don't access your stuff, the root user can. While it's against the system administrators code of conduct to look into other user's files, you cannot rule out the possibility of someone taking a peek.As chris has pointed out safe mode is no protection. On some servers (not all) you can try changing your home directory permissions to remove others' read and others' execute to get an additional measure of protection. -- Raditha Dissanayake. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.radinks.com/sftp/ | http://www.raditha.com/megaupload Lean and mean Secure FTP applet with | Mega Upload - PHP file uploader Graphical User Inteface. Just 128 KB | with progress bar.