[pmwiki-users] PmWiki at sourceforge, can it be secured?

Christian Ridderström christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 21:33:30 CDT 2009


On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Bo Peng wrote:

> In summary, using apache-writable directories in a shared-environment is 
> risky and there is no good solution to it. I do not think there are good 
> solutions and I personally do not think this is a big deal. After all, 
> we are more likely to suffer from sf.net slowness or disruption than 
> such malicious attacks.

I think Bo's summary is accurate. For most projects the risk is probably 
acceptable. But you should be aware of it and perhaps check that nothing 
has happened now and then, and take backups of course.

/Christian

> Cheers,
> Bo
>

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