At 7:01 PM -0500 9/9/98, Chris Wertman wrote: >Look hee I am discussing security .....sheeze.....Anyway not being that >familiar >with Java in a personal form , does Java have safegaurds to address the >different >types of security problems that will be found on both platforms..?
Heh, heh!! Jee, I dunno. I think Java itself isn't the problem, but the same kinds of issues as if you had a program running on the server that had write access to the server config and startup files... SUID issues, etc. I maintain that having an ACL mechanism (use htpasswd even - we use htpasswd-generated files for authentication of a number of things on our server) is probably sufficient for most users. Make it work first. (OK, everybody who's got their httpd.conf or whatever editable by themselves, or members of a group containing the web server user, raise your hand - don't be bashful!!) GEB Gary E. Bickford, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator, Connect Schlumberger http://www.connect.slb.com
