Posted by Malcolm Dew-Jones on 10/10/80 11:27

Dikkie Dik (nospam@nospam.org) wrote:
: Han wrote:
: > - making php files "execute only or read only" seems to be a good
: > solution. Would that work on windows xp? Would this require ntfs?
: >
: I am not a Windows XP expert, but you can probably do that. If you
: switch on the Windows-NT-like authentication, you can define a user on
: your system that will be used as the web user. After that, you configure
: your webserver to use that user's privileges.
: You can probably set general directoy permissions from your web server
: program as well.

Ah yes, but which person is he going to trust to set that up? Apparently
there is no trusted user at the computer.

Also, yes, xp can certainly do that sort of securtiy with ntfs (which is
the default file system by the way) - but beware of XP home. The default
security settings are that an account is either non-priv or priv, and
since many things like games (from MS even) require priv's, you're liable
to have (or end up with) numerous priv accounts on an xp home machine.
Those priv account holders can do anything if they set their minds to it.
(Perhaps xp home edition can change that aspect of how it works, no idea,
but you still have to have someone you trust to do that.)

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