Re: database password visible!!

From: Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:25:25 +0000
Subject: Re: database password visible!!
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It makes no difference. The database is not open to external connections. And as you can see there is no password, so I am not sure which password you think is visible. -Rasmus On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Arjen Sas wrote: > Hey Webmaster, > > When you hit the source code link, you can see which files are included in the documents, for > example configuration.inc file. > When you hit source code in search.php this piece of code appears: > > [code] > > if (file_exists("configuration.inc")) { > include_once 'configuration.inc'; > } > > [/code] > > So, I thought, let's open this file! And there this neat code appears: > > [code] > > <? > $dbname = "php3"; > $root_url = "/"; > $base_url = ereg_replace("[^/]*\$","",$PHP_SELF); > $dbhost="localhost"; > $dbuser="nobody"; > $dbpwd=""; > $htsearch_prog="/local/htdig/bin/htphp.sh"; > ?> > > [/code] > > Maybe it's a good idea to change in to .php or so?? I wasn't going to do something > with this data, but you never know who will do something tricky with this. > > Greetz, > > Arjen Sas > > PS my English maybe not so well, I'm Dutch... Sorry! >

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