[Phpmyadmin-devel] sessions/cookies vs. javascript

Marc Delisle Marc.Delisle at cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca
Tue Sep 27 06:54:14 CEST 2005


Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
> Marc Delisle wrote:
> 
>> Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
>>
>>> Garvin Hicking wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>>>> <?php
>>>>>> $d = opendir('/tmp');
>>>>>> while (($file = readdir($d)) !== false) { echo $file . "\n"; }
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> uuh, bad, this is really a misconfiguration! the web (apache and/or 
>>>>> php) user
>>>>> should not have read access an this directory! only on the files 
>>>>> created by
>>>>> themselves in there!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You are right, I messed this up myself by making /tmp 
>>>> world-writable. Sorry for
>>>> the hassle. :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> world writable is _not_ wrong,
>>> world readable is wrong! ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> /tmp has always been world readable and writable!
> 
> 
> mhm, ok, but we can agree that it is a misconfiguration if the directory 
> with the session-data is readable by the web user
> 
> 
Of course we agree on that. On top of that, I think that /tmp is there 
by default for holding session data in php.ini-dist.

Marc




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