Re: Password security

[Douglas Berger <dberger@ihumanism.org>]

On 11:40 PM 10/9/2000 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson said:
>In my own Ringlink installation, the paths to the 'lib' and 'data'
>directories are as follows:
>
>         /www/htdocs/gunnar/cgi-bin/ringlink/lib
>         /www/htdocs/gunnar/cgi-bin/ringlink/data
>
>Both 'lib' and 'data' are located under the 'cgi-bin' directory. Because
>of the way my server is set up, no files in or under the 'cgi-bin'
>directory can be read from the web, which means that the password info
>is protected.
If I tried to view my cgi-bin directory and got a 403 error does that mean 
my set up is safe from the problem you describe??
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