Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 10:13:00PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 1/4/2014 9:57 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 08:56:14PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> >>Setting up a phpmyadmin config file is hardly "system
> >>administration". It's configuration affects only itself, not the
> >>entire system.
> >
> >Can any average user joe bloggs configure phpmyadmin? If not (and I
> >suspect not, otherwise pandemonium is the result) then it is a system
> >administration task!
> >
>
> Only in Debian is phpMyAdmin owned by root. And no, it does NOT
> have to be configured by the system administrator. A website
> administrator could configure it, for instance.
Sigh! For the purposes of this list, that *is* system administration if
the phpmyadmin config file is under a system directory. Don't confuse
debian-user with debian-enterprise and/or debian-isp.
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