application.cfc for security

2009-10-09 Thread Robert Harrison
I have a situation where is a user is creating subdirectories in a directory that I know. He's also uploading files via FTP. I know the name of the root directory, but don't necessarily know the name of the subdirectories and files. Is there any way I can put an application.cfc in the root

RE: application.cfc for security

2009-10-09 Thread brad
session scope, but rather would be a separate list of user names and passwords you could administer to control how could access that directory. ~Brad Original Message Subject: application.cfc for security From: Robert Harrison rob...@austin-williams.com Date: Fri, October 09, 2009 1

Re: application.cfc for security

2009-10-09 Thread Agha Mehdi
first of all, users should not be able to upload files below the web root. that is a dangerous thing to offer to them. What are you defining as right credentials? If a user can create directories and upload files using some ftp client then there are a number of things you can do to make sure each

RE: application.cfc for security

2009-10-09 Thread Robert Harrison
: application.cfc for security Not if the files being uploaded are things like images, or text files. Requests for those file types aren't routed through ColdFusion. Instead the webserver hands the files directly back to the user. Options: 1) Store the files outside of the webroot and only allow

Re: application.cfc for security

2009-10-09 Thread Charles Sheehan-Miles
, October 09, 2009 2:45 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: application.cfc for security Not if the files being uploaded are things like images, or text files. Requests for those file types aren't routed through ColdFusion. Instead the webserver hands the files directly back to the user. Options: 1