Re: [cobalt-users] Two questions re. Qube 2

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Gary,

on 23/11/00 7:51 AM, Gary Law at gary@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> First, surfing to
> 
> http://www.mydomain.com/users/
> provides a list of users folders on the Qube. This is bad as it enables a
> hacker to enumerate the users on my system. How can I stop this? I don't
> want to restrict access to the home page.

What you need to do is create an "index.html" file in /home/users/ to
redirect browsers to your home page (i.e. ../).

I'd suggest that you do the same thing for <http://www.mydomain.com/users/>

Cheers,  Malcolm

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