Re: Security problem.
| From: | Anuradha Ratnaweera | Date: | Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:14:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Security problem. | ||
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Anand wrote:
> The problem is that i have written the mysql db username and password in
> clear text, in the php scripts.
Do you mean the password for the database containing the table of
passwords?
Also, do you store the passwords as plain text or an MD5 hash or something
like that?
You may look at su_exec feature of apache to execute the script containing
the database password with a different User ID.
Anuradha