Re: Possible MBF wrt common, FHS-compliant, default document root for the various web servers
sean finney <seanius@debian.org> writes:
> something that hasn't really been brought up (i mentioned it on the
> non-webapps thread in -devel already) is that this makes packages
> potentially opened in an unconfigured state. unless you can ensure that
> the system is only running on localhost, it has some significant
> security implications. personally i'd rather that /usr/lib/cgi-bin goes
> the way of the dodo, and that packages are required to ship/generate
> webserver config files if they want to function out of the box.
Wholeheartedly agreed, particularly if we can put a management system in
place similar to the (really nice) Apache module management system that
lets admins selectively enable specific applications, which installing
everything into a default CGI-active directory doesn't permit as easily.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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