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Re: [cobalt-security] Security issue regarding Sites Backups



At 10:28 AM 8/28/01 +0200, Davide Crudo wrote:
>I'm new to te list, so I have no idea if this has been
>handled before:
>
>I've noticed that it is possible for a user to restore a website
>wich does not belong to him/her just with his user
>permissions...

I wondered about this when I first got my RaQ.  I actually started
analyzing the Perl source code the other day, but didn't get too far into
it.  Have you actually restored a Web site you didn't own, or is this just
theoretical?  Maybe I'll reverse-engineer the .raq format (I think it's
just a tarball, like a .pkg) and see if I can "restore" an arbitrary file
(/etc/shadow and /etc/passwd, maybe...).

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