package: libapache2-mod-php5 severity: wishlist On Tuesday 10 November 2009, sean finney wrote: > > > And my personal nitpick; PHP should be off by default so that > > > php scripts in configured data locations are not executed by > > > web servers by default. PHP files/dirs in webapp packages > > > should be whitelisted for execution rather than each webapp > > > needing to blacklist their configured data locations. > > > > > > Fine with me. I'm not sure every web server supports such > > feature, though. > > someone ought to file a wishlist bug against php5. at the very > least there could be a debconf prompt controlling the global > status of php, and i think there's a strong case for arguing that > apps shouldn't assume that it's on by default. >
I would really like to see php being disabled for userdirs by default. This currently allows every user to execute code as user www-data. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

