Sounds to me like he shouldn't be running a web server at all. If he doesn't know what he's doing, (or he wants IIS as a web server) that just shows he's not trustworthy or credible. Did you mention something about a web hosting company? My best advice is to tell him to forget about it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Shin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:58 PM Subject: [Full-Disclosure] more on securing php > Hi guys (sorry for the late response but I'm not really supposed to worry about this stuff at work ya know :) -- > > Thanks for all your responses. I already knew he shouldn;t be running apache as root, I have told him before to run apache as a seperate user (eg. "apache") but he has yet to fix this. > > Once again, the safe_mode on PHP works __directly with the *nix kernel__ , meaning that it makes sure that resources accessed are owned by the currentuser. However, if PHP is called by apache, which runs as root, and if root owns everything ... I think ya get the picture. :) That was my dillema before. > > Now about IIS. I have told him to run *nix but he is stubborn as a, umm, donkey when it comes to this stuff. He refuses to touch it, so I told him apache on Windows. I simply do not *trust* IIS as a stable and secure webserver. At least apache is secure (to a certain degree). > > Also, I have thought maybe he could crate a seperate 2k3 user account per each new user, but then I don't know if safe_mode works with Windows user accounts. > > So, basically, he shouldn't really be running apache on windows w/ php at all, right? > > Thanks > > -- Justin > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
