Ralf Dreibrodt wrote/napisał[a]/schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> i just saw an error on a debian box with apache(-common) 1.3.9-13.2:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         4096 Dec  7 13:52 /var
> drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Mar 11 06:30 /var/log
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Mar 10 06:25 /var/log/apache
> -rw-rw-r--    1 www-data nogroup    134382 Mar 12 13:45
> /var/log/apache/access.log
> 
> tail -n 1 /var/log/apache/access.log
> 127.0.0.1 - - [12/Mar/2002:13:53:15 +0100] "GET
> /cgi-bin/login.pl?user=admin&password=tztztz HTTP/1.1" 200 148
> 
> to whom belongs this problem?
> 
> the programmer, who used GET for a login or the sysadmin who shows every
> ordinary user the GET-request?

The programmer. This is a very bad practice, the password also lands in the
logs of w3caches along the way, in browser history, etc.

Alex
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