<p mode="sarcastic">What is your network again? I want to dump it into my border firewall's blacklist as a self protection mechanism</p>

In all seriousness, it is worth the extra effort to learn to do it with minimal privileges up front, because it forces you to think of the reprecussions of the actions you are allowing the web server to accomplish.

Too many times I have seen $management ask to have Joe External be able to use an "internal" application. Applications morph. Unless you limit up front what the application is able to do from a security standpoint (only what it needs to do), it is just too easy to make decisions later on without thinking through the implications.

On the other hand, I started life as a security focused system admin, so I am a little more paranoid about those things.

Update: And a P.S. "somewhat internal" means external, right? It is either 100% internal, or it is external.

--MidLifeXis

In reply to Re^3: Web Browser fails to compile my code by MidLifeXis
in thread Web Browser fails to compile my code by aykun81

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