Yeah, on your DBConnection include file (where your username/pass is kept), encrypt
the page with a encoder like IonCube (http://www.ioncube.com) they charge by the amount
of code, so for say, two connection lines, it's like $1.00. Check out there site, after you sign
up for an account you can select your script and the web-interface will tell you how much
it would cost to encode.

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 10:02, Hardik Doshi wrote:
Hi everyone,

I found the same problem regarding security issue with database password file. Does anyone has solution for that?

thanks

Hardik


"John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Major security question:
>
> I manage a shared Linux web server running PHP 4.2.3. Apache must have
> read permissions on a php file necessary for a web application. For
> example a conf.php file containing a MySQL password that is stored
> outside the web directory:
>
> -rw-r----- 1 q apache 3522 Oct 17 06:39 conf.php
>
> Because this file is readable by apache, ANY user on the server can
write
> the following script:
>
>
>
> which upon execution the conf.php file will be read by apache and
exposed
> to the user.
>
> Example understood?
>
> How can a file be secured so it can still be used by apache, but
> inaccessable by any other user? Is there a PHP ini configuration to
force
> apache to run as the user that is the owner of the php files being
> executed?

Either turn on safe_mode or use the CGI instead of the module.

---John W. Holmes...

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