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Re: Re: Re: Re: CGI Securityby ant (Scribe) |
on Jun 22, 2001 at 19:34 UTC ( #90758=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Hi Mirod Thanks for the brief explanation. It's cleared up a misty point or two. Just a thought on the last paragraph really if a legal user came in to the directory through .htaccess, then they could enter someone elses username into the web page and submit that file, which makes .htaccess a little useless against legal users playing around with user names. Unfortunately user names are very easy to pick up through our organisation, as they are the same as the individual email name. I think the one way forward is to create a timestamp/username variable and enter that into a table/file when the user enters the system and to remove it after the person has left. Then when a person enters a web page, we take the user variable and check it against the user variable in the table/file. That seems like a more workable solution to me Many thanks for the info. Anthony
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