Re: [cobalt-users] 250 site limit URGENT HELP REQUIRED

[jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

Jeremy Anthony Kinsey <webmaster@xxxxxxx> writes:

> >The GUI does not use scripts, it uses all php, mysql and C and is fast,
> >adding the 80th user to a site is jsut as fast as doing the 1st user.

> Hmm.. Interesting.  How on earth do they use php, etc.. and have this be 
> secure?  We have tried writing things in PHP to make life easier setting 
> up things on our Linux boxes, but the one problem is that a lot of times 
> the script, etc, has to be root.. Very dangerous.

For your information, the RaQs also use an Apache running as root, to
do their GUI (Perl).

The best way to do it is, to split the system in a frontend and a
backend. The frontend would be written in PHP running on a standard
(non-root) Apache.

The back-end could be written in Perl or PHP; and would not have to be
run from Apache (but would need to be root).

To link the frontend and the backend, something simple like a MySQL
database could be used...

> The other thing that bothers me is they appear to use Big Brother for 
> monitoring?  Again, very dangerous App...

Why do you think BB is especially dangerous?


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