Me: "I see Dave Watts is out of outsized tropical nuts."
Sysadmin: "Give the man a coconut!"

;)

cheers Dave.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 22 April 2002 17:03
> To: CF-Server
> Subject: RE: SecurityFocus: KPMG-2002013: Coldfusion Path Disclosure
> 
> 
> > we're locking down our servers at the moment and discovered 
> > something strange....
> > 
> > on our CF4.5.1 sp2 servers, we applied the 'check file 
> > exists' and everything was fine and locked down
> > 
> > However, when we tried out CF5 servers, applying the 
> > workaround destroyed our ability to use the RDS service 
> > from CF studio to browse/edit etc that server.
> > 
> > When we removed the workaround, access was restored....
> > 
> > anyone had anything similar?
> 
> Yes, this is a known issue. You can fix it by putting the RDS 
> files in the
> right location - they're not put where they should be by CF 
> 5. This keeps
> any web server which checks for the file's existence from allowing RDS
> requests:
> 
> http://www.cfbughunt.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_bug&BugID=9
> 94&Row=80
> 
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
> 
> 
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