[Pkg-vexim-devel] insecure permissions on variables.php

Cameron Gregg cam at earthanarchy.org
Fri Nov 23 03:23:50 UTC 2007


Hi,

I just installed the vexim package. I notice it didn't initialize the 
siteadmin user, the SQL seemed to be commented out in the install 
script. I just copied it and ran it manually.

What I was writing to you about is that by default, the variables.php is 
world readable, meaning any user can view it and get the vexim mysql 
password.

I changed it to the following ownership and permission, which I think 
would be a better default.

-rw-r----- 1 root www-data  2851 2007-11-18 12:58 variables.php

Thanks for the package, keep up the good work!

Cam



More information about the Pkg-vexim-devel mailing list