You exactly got the issue I have. Your approach will work fine but for one issue bcoz of my requirement.

I have a softlink to the user directories under /usr/local/apache/htdocs as follows:- 

wd -> /usr/local/wd/

[download]

Then, I build the link using the 'soft link', 'username' & 'log file name' and present it in HTML format.

One of the requirement is that I show the log files as 'links' in the HTML page so that the user can click and view the file(s), if they want to. Hence, I coded like what I had explained in the original post.

Is there any way to still have the files as 'links' and also take care of the security issue?

In reply to Re^2: Perl CGI - Viewing logfiles - Security Issues by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl CGI - Viewing logfiles - Security Issues by stumbler

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