On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:04:43PM -0700, David Anderson wrote:

> Maybe we should add mechanisms to the server software so
> that render it inoperative unless the project admin
> has addressed the basic security issues.
> E.g. nothing works if html/ops is unprotected,

For that you should parse the whole Apache configuration (not everyone
is using .htaccess files to configure authentication). Better would be
to let make_project generate a random password and an appropriate
.htaccess file for the ops pages by default.

> if anything is running as root, etc.

Yes, it would be a good idea if all the daemons/utilities would refuse
to run as root.

Gabor

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