At 07:55 PM 4/21/2002, you wrote:
>At 19:43 21/04/02 -0700, you wrote:
>> ><Directory /home/sites/>
>> >AllowOverride All
>> >Options All
>> ></Directory>
>> >
>> >... set, then who do you blame? :o) Set it to
>>"AllowOverride None" and all
>> >these fancy .htaccess files in /home/sites/wherever
>> >will no longer work.
>>
>>Well.... Not exactly, at least not on my remaining
>>RaQ3. I have the following in my access.conf file and
>>I still can (and do) use .htaccess files to password
>>protect a few user directories..
>>
>><Directory />
>>Options None
>>AllowOverride None
>>AuthFailDelay 2000000
>></Directory>
>>
>>What I *do* use to stop those files from being
>>uploaded in the first place, is this little line in my
>>proftpd.conf file..
>>
>>PathDenyFilter
>>"(\\.ftpaccess)|(\\.htaccess)|(\\.forward)$"
>>
>>Babs
>
>
>Thats quite a nice way of doing it, but that still doesnt stop users from 
>uploading htaccess.txt and then renaming it on the server using there FTP 
>client.
>
>It looks almost impossible to stop users doing this, basically it gives 
>them the same access as what shell would.
>

This is a huge security hole... , how do we fix this???
I call on SUN to patch this hole ASAP!!!



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