[1690] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Security with CGI problem...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Dilworth)
Thu Mar 21 07:23:19 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:59:50 -0200
To: "S.W. Cheung" <swcheung@hkimd.cig.mot.com>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: Mike Dilworth <mjd@soi.city.ac.uk>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
At 05:16 PM 3/20/96 +0800, S.W. Cheung wrote:
>In order to reduce the hazard that my own password file accessed by
>other "illegal" CGI programs, I should make the access to my own CGI
>program. What should I do in order to restrict the access without a
>second server?
>>
run the scripts setuid
mike
Michael J. Dilworth Dept. Information Science
City University
London, UK.
http://web.is.city.ac.uk/Home/mjd/Homepage.html
