Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: generalizing khttpd

# Re: generalizing khttpd

David Lang (dlang@diginsite.com)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:47:59 -0700 (PDT)

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On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>
> kHTTPd adds rule 4:
>
> 4. If the file is executable or non-world-readable

This is a good idea, but do you really want to punt just becouse someone
goofed on the permissions of the file? This could cause
hard-to-diagnose changes in behavior if there are any bugs ot
inconsistancy between the khttpd and userspace httpd, and from a security
point of view, the worst that would happen is that your cgi would be
downloaded rather then executed (messy, but is it really that much of a
security risk?)

David Lang

"If users are made to understand that the system administrator's job is to
make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
happy."
- -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)

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