> I have a friend that owns a web hosting company and recently > he asked me to check up on his security ... I found that PHP > scripts could access, modify, etc. anything on the drive. Of > course, this is because PHP was invoked by apache, which is > being run as a root user (Administrator, he runs apache on > win2k3 for some odd reason) but I do not know the remedy. How > could he set up his apache/PHP so that only the users of his > web hosting service could "do stuff" to their own web > directories. I know I am not explaining this well, but I > think you get the picture :) I also know there is a simple > solution to this, I googled it though and I couldn't find it.
There is no good solution. You an enable PHP's "Safe Mode", which goes a long way to closing these holes, but it's not a 100% solution. Tom _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
