Congrats Cody on what you've already achieved.

Other monks can weigh in with their opinions here, but I don't like the idea of a world-writeable directory for anything... I'd prefer to have the file/directory permissions set to 0644 so it is writeable only by your userid, and run the script with the suid bit set so that it runs as your usergrp rather than the webserver's.. and then make damned sure to read up on tainting (because suid scripts automatically invoke taint checks)!!!

..Guv

Update see here for more CGI security info.

Update II I saw this article by Ovid referenced by another monk in some node (sorry, don't remember what node / who linked it). Cheers!

In reply to Re: Moving A Web Application From Hacky To ... Less Hacky by theguvnor
in thread Moving A Web Application From Hacky To ... Less Hacky by Cody Pendant

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