full-disclosure - Temporary Files and Web Sites (swp, ~, etc)

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From: aditya.deshmukh at online.gateway.technolabs.net (Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh])
Subject: Temporary Files and Web Sites (swp, ~, etc)

> HTML file is an PHP, or an .index.php.swp is found, values like DB 
> usernames/passwords, security mechanism or worse might be revealed to the 
> user requesting the file.
> 
> What can you do?
> There isn't much you can do beside:
> 1) Avoid leaving these files behind
> 2) Make rules in Apache/whatever to block access to .swp, ~, etc files.

3. rm -rf $TMP in the logout script - all users tmp is cleared at logout or at login or maybe you want to secure delete those files instead of just doing rm....

-aditya


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