On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
>
> The suggestion I made to Stephen was to make the executable version of the
> script look in its own directory for a file called anlgform.cfg that contains
> the location of the analog.exe executable on the Windows system. This still
> includes a security problem, becaues this file will be readable by the web user
> and analog.exe must be executable by that user. I don't know of any way around
> this; any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
I don't see the problem here. It wouldn't allow the person browsing the
site to execute analog, even if he knew the location and the web server had
execute permission, would it?
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Dog. Instead, we will show Mortal Kombat: Annihilation." Cable & Wireless
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