in reply to Re: Re: Securing your scripts on webhoster's server
in thread Securing your scripts on webhoster's server

SuExec causes your [cgi] script to run with your uid. Other users' will run under theirs. They cannot 'donate' a snooper [or clobber] script to your uid because chown to another user is a privileged operation.

[If you give your db password-containing module 0600 permissions, nobody can see inside but root and you.]

After Compline,
Zaxo

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