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Re: Protecting a single file?



On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 10:50:07AM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote
> Hey everyone,
> 
> just a short question :
> 
> I have a certain file where php-passwords are stored in - the problem
> is that it could usually read by anyone. Does anyone of you know how
> to protect this single file without doing a .htaccess on the whole
> folder and keeping the chown-rights of 777 ? Is it even possible to
> set a password or so on this file ?
> 
> Any help is appreciated very well :-) !
> 

The short answer is, don't store documents like this in 
directories that your web server can serve files from.


John P.
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