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Special Forums IP Networking Apache: In the beginning... Post 41282 by Neo on Wednesday 1st of October 2003 10:53:32 PM
Old 10-01-2003
I'm glad to let the thread die, but I don't agree that making sure only 'root' has write access is necessarily more secure.

It might be more secure, or it might not, depending on how the system is configured and what are the files, the permissions, and a host of other things.

We have web servers that runs as user 'foo' and the entire filesystem under document DocumentRoot is owned by 'foo' and I'm very happy with the security and would not change it.


'foo' can have a shell like /dev/null and be very secure too and there is no chance of any script executing as 'root' with an accidental SUID flag, etc.

This is off topic from the original post, but it is something that is important. DocumentRoot with Apache and the userid of the listening process can be a host of userids, that is why it is configurable in Apache.


Neo
 

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apache::session::serialize::sybase

Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase(3pm)

NAME

       Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase - Use Storable to zip up persistent data and unpack/pack to put into Sybase-compatible image field

SYNOPSIS

	use Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase;

	$zipped = Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase::serialize($ref);
	$ref = Apache::Session::Serialize::Sybase::unserialize($zipped);

DESCRIPTION

       This module fulfills the serialization interface of Apache::Session by taking the data from Apache::Session::Serialize::Storable and
       modifying it to work with Sybase IMAGE fields. Note that you do not need to quote these values before inserting into the database, and that
       if you are using DBI::Sybase, you cannot use the data in a placeholder. If you use Apache::Session::Sybase as your session class, this will
       all get taken care of.

AUTHOR

       Apache::Session::Serialize::Storable was written by Jeffrey William Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>; the Sybase-specific data manipulation was
       written by Mark Landry <mdlandry@lincoln.midcoast.com> for use in an earlier version of Apache::Session::DBI::Sybase and placed here by
       Chris Winters <chris@cwinters.com>.

SEE ALSO

       Apache::Session::Serialize::Storable, Apache::Session::Sybase

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