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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:26:00 -0400
From: "Curt Purdy" <purdy@...man.com>
To: "'Neil Neely'" <neil@...i.com>,
	"'Darren Reed'" <avalon@...igula.anu.edu.au>
Cc: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: [lists] Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof)

> Neil Neely wrote:
> For those of us that have to administer shared hosting 
> servers where customers can and do build/install very poorly 
> written web applications it can be a full time job trying to 
> protect your server. 
Snip

At my the ISP I used to run, we used a "chroot jail" so that every site had
its own little bubble that could not be broken through.  A cracker could
compromise a site and deface it or whatever, but could not traverse to any
other location on the server.  Therefore a customer could have the most
insecure php app around with a back-door in a "free" PHP module they got off
the Net and could be embarassed by a cracker but no-one else would suffer
including my BSD server.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSNA, GSEC, CNE, MCSE+I, CCDA 
Information Security Officer 
Information Systems Security
infosysec.net
443.846.4231

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If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. 
What's more, you deserve to be hacked. 
-- former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke