From: "Geo." 

Unless you plan to restructure all the website security you have little
choice under what account you are going to have perl running.

Geo.

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:95gkqvc1r9gu287ov4p0tcgnkg0nrhpon6{at}4ax.com...
> You should never run scripting languages in the IUSER context because they
have access to
> all other sites.
>
>    However, even if you run them under a separate user, they can still
write a ping
> flooder.
>
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 06:08:01 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
> >Lets say I setup a website for you on the server, what user context does
a
> >perl script from your website run in? IUSER right? With that permission
> >level you now have access to every other website on the server, so you
can
> >get into areas you have no business getting into
>

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