On 3/29/06, LJ Rand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks, all those suggestions help and have been
> observed.
>
> But I still worry about some remote attacker tricking
> the firewall into somehow sending or exposing the
> contents of the config.xml file.  It kind of feels
> like having an /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow file where
> the password fields are plain text.

Uhhh, whats the difference from freebsd's rc.conf and in this case!? 
The CARP passwords would be listed in rc.conf on a stock FreeBSD
system, too... So I fail to see your point.

And how would someone "trick" the system into showing this file if the
web service is firewalled off?  I think your just nit-picking at this
point to nit-pick.

> Is it not possible to have the webgui account to be a
> more limited firewall administrator account, or
> something along those lines, using sudo, etc.?

Patches accepted.

> Also, I notice that even after the upgrade to latest
> snapshot, my latest /conf/backup/conf*.xml files still
> switch to world read permissions, even though my
> /conf/config.xml is just rw by owner only.  As a
> precaution, I do have permissions on the directories
> themselves restricted to 700, but I don't think this
> is the default.

The changes I made only apply to new installs.   Nothing is in place
to magically change this.

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