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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by amit khatri <am...@hotmail.com> on 2002/03/11 21:25:30 UTC
give the solution,URGENT
please give the solution , we need it badly ,there is no security hole
because we are providing authentication.
please tell the solution
>From: "Joshua Slive" <jo...@slive.ca>
>Reply-To: users@httpd.apache.org
>To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
>Subject: RE: compiled apache with EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE but ...
>Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:18:49 -0500
>
>
> > From: amit khatri [mailto:amitjkhatri@hotmail.com]
>
> > i downloaded apache and added the following
> > EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE
> > to src/Configuration and compiled it but when
> > apachectl start
> > is given the foll error message :
> >
> > "Apache is not designed to to serve pages while running as root.
> > if you still want to serve the pages as root then
> > add -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE to your EXTRA_CFLAGS line in your
> > src/Configuration file and rebuild the server."
> > what could be the problem???
>
>If you use ./configure to build apache, then editing src/Configuration will
>have no effect.
>
>I would give you instructions on how to do it properly, but what you are
>trying to do falls under the category "If you can't figure it out, you
>shouldn't be doing it." And, in fact, it also falls under the category
>"Even if you can figure it out, you shouldn't be doing it".
>
>The only time I would even *consider* making that change is if you have a
>small, internal network, where you absolutely trust all your users and
>there
>is no connection whatsoever to the Internet.
>
>Joshua.
>
>
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RE: give the solution,URGENT
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
> From: amit khatri [mailto:amitjkhatri@hotmail.com]
> please give the solution , we need it badly ,there is no security hole
> because we are providing authentication.
> please tell the solution
I replied to him directly. No point having a bad idea like this archived
for posterity, but if he wants to screw up his system, I'm not going to stop
him.
Joshua.
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RE: give the solution,URGENT
Posted by Bryan Henry <br...@mail.utexas.edu>.
He DID...
>From: "Joshua Slive" <jo...@slive.ca>
>> If you use ./configure to build apache, then editing
>>src/Configuration will have no effect.
be nice.
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