Disabling SELinux is it secure?

Jay Paulson jpaulson at sedl.org
Fri Mar 4 16:14:56 UTC 2005


>> Thanks for the link!
>>
>> Here's what I did that got everything to work correctly.
>>
>> First I added apache to my 'www' group I created for multiple users to
>> edit a single file.  Next I chmoded -R g+s /var/www/test which is my
>> DocumentRoot in apache.
>>
>> That seems to have solved all my problems with permissions and getting
>> the 403 Forbidden error!  Now all I have got to do is get cgi scripts
>> to work!
>>
>> Thanks for everyone's help.  I hope this can help someone in the 
>> future
>> :)
> Be afraid, be very afraid.
>
> Have you read the thread about the guy who recently discovered his
> machine was compromised, by a CGI script.
>

Nope where is that?  Was it due to bad programing in the CGI script?

Whatever the case may be I have to have this machine set up to where 
multiple people can edit a file and still have Apache work correctly.

jay




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