On Fri Jun 06, 2003 at 05:56:46PM +0200, Oden Eriksson wrote:

> > In the meantime, I suggest we leave this function alone.
> 
> Hmmm..., would it be possible to disable it globally and enable in for 
> 127.0.0.1 only? Make it work only in CLI mode?

I don't know if you can do this with PHP unless you created 127.0.0.1 as a
virtual host with the directive overriden in the <VirtualHost> section.

> One of the goals to be "innovative" for the next Mandrake release could be to 
> lock down as much as possible from start. Kind of when Vincent disabled root 
> logins in openssh, I liked that even though it break stuff and make some 
> people pissed;) My earliest apache2 packages comes to my mind too, it really 
> made people pissed when everyting was monster splitted and not even mod_dir 
> was installed per default;)
> 
> Well. It's just an idea as good as any.

Personally, I liked it.  =)  But some people do not approve of my proactive
approach to security.  I suppose they like the reactive approach better.

Ah well... it all boils down to "you can't please everyone all the time"...
I suppose it's better to make the majority happy and hope that only stupid
people get bit by the unnecessary exposure.  <shrug>

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