Re: [cobalt-security] RE: SSI Vuln on cobalt

[Brett Wright <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 19:43 21/04/02 -0700, you wrote:
> ><Directory /home/sites/>
> >AllowOverride All
> >Options All
> ></Directory>
> >
> >... set, then who do you blame? :o) Set it to
> "AllowOverride None" and all
> >these fancy .htaccess files in /home/sites/wherever
> >will no longer work.
>
> Well.... Not exactly, at least not on my remaining
> RaQ3. I have the following in my access.conf file and
> I still can (and do) use .htaccess files to password
> protect a few user directories..
>
> <Directory />
> Options None
> AllowOverride None
> AuthFailDelay 2000000
> </Directory>
>
> What I *do* use to stop those files from being
> uploaded in the first place, is this little line in my
> proftpd.conf file..
>
> PathDenyFilter
> "(\\.ftpaccess)|(\\.htaccess)|(\\.forward)$"
>
> Babs


Thats quite a nice way of doing it, but that still doesnt stop users from 
uploading htaccess.txt and then renaming it on the server using there FTP 
client.

It looks almost impossible to stop users doing this, basically it gives 
them the same access as what shell would.


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